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# has_role

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.has_role"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">has\_role</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">principal</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">''</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">role</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L32902"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Checks if the specified user has the specified role.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">principal (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name of the user for which role membership is being checked. Must be an existing user. If blank, will use the current user. The default value is ‘’.</p>
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              <p>Name of role to check for membership.</p>
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              <p>Optional parameters. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>no\_error\_if\_not\_exists</strong> – If <span className="em">false</span> will return an error if the provided input parameter <span className="em">role</span> does not exist or is blank. If <span className="em">true</span> then it will return <span className="em">false</span> for output parameter <span className="em">has\_role</span>. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘false’.</p>
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                  <p><strong>only\_direct</strong> – If <span className="em">false</span> will search recursively if the input parameter <span className="em">principal</span> is a member of input parameter <span className="em">role</span>. If <span className="em">true</span> then input parameter <span className="em">principal</span> must directly be a member of input parameter <span className="em">role</span>. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘false’.</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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            <div className="dt">principal (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Value of input parameter <span className="em">principal</span>.</p>
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            <div className="dt">role (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Input parameter <span className="em">role</span> for which membership is being checked.</p>
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              <p>Indicates whether the specified user has membership in the specified target input parameter <span className="em">role</span>. Allowed values are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>True</strong> – User has membership in the role.</p>
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                  <p><strong>False</strong> – User does not have membership in the role.</p>
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              <p>Additional information. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>direct</strong> – <span className="em">true</span> when principal is directly a member of the role. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘false’.</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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