User Service

This will show you how to perform various User management using the Umbraco service layer.

Learn how to use the User Service to manage the users on your Umbraco project.

Assigning a User to a User Group

To assign a User to a User Group, we need both the IUserService and IUserGroupService. As with all Umbraco services, these are obtained using dependency injection.

1. Start by defining an interface for our implementation:

ISampleUserHandler.cs

namespace UmbracoDocs.Samples;

public interface ISampleUserHandler
{
    Task<bool> AssignUserToAdminGroup(string email, Guid performingUserKey);
}

1. Next we implement the interface. This implementation holds the dependency to the Umbraco services:

SampleUserHandler.cs

using Umbraco.Cms.Core;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models.Membership;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Services;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Services.OperationStatus;

namespace UmbracoDocs.Samples;

public class SampleUserHandler : ISampleUserHandler
{
    private readonly IUserService _userService;
    private readonly IUserGroupService _userGroupService;

    public SampleUserHandler(IUserService userService, IUserGroupService userGroupService)
    {
        _userService = userService;
        _userGroupService = userGroupService;
    }

    public async Task<bool> AssignUserToAdminGroup(string email, Guid performingUserKey)
    {
        IUser? user = _userService.GetByEmail(email);
        if (user is null)
        {
            return false;
        }

        Attempt<UserGroupOperationStatus> result = await _userGroupService.AddUsersToUserGroupAsync(
            new UsersToUserGroupManipulationModel(Constants.Security.AdminGroupKey, [user.Key]),
            performingUserKey
        );

        return result.Success;
    }
}

1. Register the implementation in a Composer:

SampleUserHandlerComposer.cs

using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Composing;

namespace UmbracoDocs.Samples;

public class SampleUserHandlerComposer : IComposer
{
    public void Compose(IUmbracoBuilder builder)
        => builder.Services.AddSingleton<ISampleUserHandler, SampleUserHandler>();
}

1. Lastly, we need to put our implementation to use. This could be done in a Management API controller:

SampleUserController.cs

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Cms.Api.Management.Controllers;
using Umbraco.Cms.Api.Management.Routing;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Security;

namespace UmbracoDocs.Samples;

[ApiExplorerSettings(GroupName = "Sample user handler")]
[VersionedApiBackOfficeRoute("sample/user-handler")]
public class SampleUserController : ManagementApiControllerBase
{
    private readonly ISampleUserHandler _sampleUserHandler;
    private readonly IBackOfficeSecurityAccessor _backOfficeSecurityAccessor;

    public SampleUserController(
        ISampleUserHandler sampleUserHandler,
        IBackOfficeSecurityAccessor backOfficeSecurityAccessor)
    {
        _sampleUserHandler = sampleUserHandler;
        _backOfficeSecurityAccessor = backOfficeSecurityAccessor;
    }

    [HttpPut]
    [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status200OK)]
    [ProducesResponseType(StatusCodes.Status400BadRequest)]
    public async Task<IActionResult> AssignUserToAdminGroup(string email)
        => await _sampleUserHandler.AssignUserToAdminGroup(email, CurrentUserKey(_backOfficeSecurityAccessor))
            ? Ok()
            : BadRequest();
}