Issue appending to object groups

[imatrycode]

hello again,

Still using this and again its ace so thak you , just wondernig if there is an easy way to add to a group.

for example a user group has 2 members, if I set the members attribute on the group to add the additional it replaces the 2 with the 1 so it replaces instead of appends.

Any help on this would be appreicated

E.g. this creates the group with the member

t.print_data (t.create(['cmdb', 'user', 'group'], data={'name':'VLAN-'+(vlan)+'-GRP','group-type':'firewall','member':[{'name':(username)}]}),verbose=True)

Editing it's member attribute to say:

member':[{'name':(username), {'name':("SOMETHING")}]} replaces it with these 2

Bit If I do

ember':[{'name':("SOMETHING")}]}

it replaces all the members with the new one, wonder if there is an append method.

[imatrycode]

I have found a workaround but its pretty messy. basically gets the current lot of members then appends the new one to it.

@staticmethod
def print_dataAddress(response, response2=None, verbose=False):
if response['status']=='success':
if verbose:
pprint.pprint (response)
elif response['http_method']=='GET':
global data
data = {'member': []}
for member in response['results']:
for whats in member['member']:
data['member'].append({'name':((whats)['name'])})
else:
print ('OK!')
else:
print ('Fail!')
pprint.pprint (response)

then

a=t.show(['cmdb', 'user', 'group',(group)])
b=t.print_dataAddress(a)
data['member'].append({"name":(username)})
x=json.dumps(data)

[eoprede]

@imatrycode
When you are working with the group, you can not access members separately. You can only deal with them as a whole set, whether you are creating or editing them.

Unfortunately I don't have fortigate readily available anymore, but I recall that some endpoints were allowing to edit some subitems. You could try to do something like t.create(['cmdb', 'user', 'group',X], data= {'name':("SOMETHING")}), where X is the id of your group. Again - I am not sure if you can access it or not and can't test it, but I recall some endpoints allowing you to do it.

Otherwise you have found acceptable workaround - just grab the list of all members, add/remove them as needed and push the whole list back to the firewall.