Adding multiple users JSON for Google Directory API (Python)

Question

When I try to add users: In this way I can only add one user, but I will need to add multiple users from the JSON file.

req =  [
            {
                "primaryEmail": "first.user@mydomain.com",
                "name": {
                            "givenName": "UserName",
                            "familyName": "UserLastName"
                        },
                "suspended": False,
                "password": "my password",
                "hashFunction": "SHA-1",
                "changePasswordAtNextLogin": False,
                "agreedToTerms": True,
                "ipWhitelisted": False                
            },
            {
                "primaryEmail": "second.user@exnesstest.com",
                "name": {
                            "givenName": "FirstName",
                          "familyName": "LastName"
                       },
                "suspended": False,
                "password": "my password",
                "hashFunction": "SHA-1",
                "changePasswordAtNextLogin": False,
                "agreedToTerms": True,
                "ipWhitelisted": False               

            }
        ]
users = service.users().insert(body=req).execute()

I get some error like:

googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/users?alt=json returned "Invalid Input: primary_user_email">

How can I add multiple users in this way?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '21 at 18:14

You would have to use a BatchRequest if you want to send multiple actions in one API call. Here is an example from the Python documentation provided by google

def list_animals(request_id, response, exception):
  if exception is not None:
    # Do something with the exception
    pass
  else:
    # Do something with the response
    pass

def list_farmers(request_id, response):
  """Do something with the farmers list response."""
  pass

service = build('farm', 'v2')

batch = service.new_batch_http_request()

batch.add(service.animals().list(), callback=list_animals)
batch.add(service.farmers().list(), callback=list_farmers)
batch.execute()

You can read more about the method here : https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/batch

Or use the github repository directly (where the example came from): https://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/batch.html

The only thing you need to be aware of is the threshold of requests send per second/minute/hour , but google would error out if you exceed the limit and you would have to limit the requests using an Exponential Backoff

Adding multiple users JSON for Google Directory API (Python)

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