Sidecar: Retrieving User Roles

UserRoles.js

/*  Author: Angel Magaña - cheleguanaco@cheleguanaco.com 
*   
*   This Gist can be used within a Sugar 7 Controller to retrieve a user's 
*   security Roles
*
*/

/*  To retrieve the Roles, we create a User object then 
*   retrieve the User's related Role records via the default Users <--> Roles relationship
*/

var user = app.data.createBean('Users', {id: app.user.id}); //the JSON object contains the ID of the record to load
user.fetch(); //this retrieves the record from the Users module with the ID specified in the JSON object

//this retrieves the related records for the previously loaded User record, using the 'link' name (from vardefs)
var user_roles = user.getRelatedCollection('aclroles'); 
user_roles.fetch({relate:true});

// At this point, user_roles.models represents all the Role records associated with the given user, in this case, the current user

If you just need the names of the roles for the current user, that's stored in-session at app.user.attributes.roles