Google Provisioning API 5-day delete restriction hack

[sweetjesus26]

class GoogleUsers(object): """ Pythonic interface to Google Provisioning API. """ ... def __delitem__(self, key): delete_key = 'delete%d%d' % (time.time(), os.getpid()) self.gdata_api.RenameUser(key, delete_key) self.gdata_api.DeleteUser(delete_key) ...

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[dannipenguin]

Does this mean it's possible to rename a user in Google's account system?

[sweetjesus26]

Oh right, yeah, they haven't put that into the Python API yet...

Yes! You can rename Google accounts but not with the current Python API implementation. I hacked in a new method in gdata/apps/service.py:

...
class AppsService(gdata.service.GDataService):
"""Client for the Google Apps Provisioning service."""
...
def RenameUser(self, user_name, new_user_name):
"""Update a user account."""

uri = "%s/user/%s/%s" % (self._baseURL(), API_VER, user_name)
try:
return gdata.apps.UserEntryFromString(str(self.Put(gdata.apps.UserEntry(login=gdata.apps.Login(user_name=new_user_name)), uri)))
except gdata.service.RequestError, e:
raise AppsForYourDomainException(e.args[0])
...

Alternately you could use gdata.apps.service.AppsService(...).UpdateUser(old_user_name, gdata.apps.UserEntry(login=gdata.apps.Login(user_name=new_user_name)))