Creates users and groups from a given CSV file.

creator.py

from time import sleep

from nuxeo.client import Nuxeo
from nuxeo.exceptions import HTTPError
from nuxeo.users import User
from nuxeo.groups import Group
import csv
import argparse


def get_index(headers: iter):
    arr = []
    for h in range(len(headers)):
        arr.append((headers[h], h))

    return arr


if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import user and groups to your instance')
    parser.add_argument('--host', type=str,
                        help='address of your instance followed by `nuxeo` path segment. for instance '
                             'http://localhost:8080/nuxeo',
                        default='http://localhost:8080/nuxeo')
    parser.add_argument('--path', type=str, help='full path to csv file with user/group definition', required=True)
    parser.add_argument('--user', type=str, help='Username of the acting user', default='Administrator')
    parser.add_argument('--password', type=str, help='Password of the acting user', default='Administrator')
    parser.add_argument('--type', type=str, help='Type of the document to create; user | group', default='user')

    args = parser.parse_args()

    nuxeo = Nuxeo(host=args.host, auth=(args.user, args.password))

    with open(args.path, 'r') as f:
        reader = csv.reader(f, quotechar='|')
        header_index = get_index(next(reader))
        for row in reader:
            data = {}
            for (field, index) in header_index:
                val = row[index]
                if ',' in val:
                    val = [x.strip() for x in val.split(',') if len(x.strip()) > 0]
                data[field] = val

            try:
                if args.type is 'user':
                    user = User(properties=data)
                    user = nuxeo.users.create(user)
                    print(f"User: {user.as_dict()['properties']['username']} created")
                elif args.type is 'group':
                    group = Group(properties=data)
                    group = nuxeo.groups.create(group)
                    print(f"Group: {group.as_dict()['properties']['groupname']} created")
            except HTTPError as err:
                print(f"Row #{reader.line_num} data {data} error {err}")

            if reader.line_num % 32 == 0:
                sleep(1)

An example of CSV:

username,password,firstName,lastName,email,company,groups
Paul,1234,Paul,McCartney,paul@nx.com,NX,|Librarian,administrators|