Adding multiple users JSON for Google Directory API (Python) - google-admin-sdk

Question

When I try to add users:
In this way I can only add one user, but I will need to add multiple users from the JSON file.
req = [
{
"primaryEmail": "first.user#mydomain.com",
"name": {
"givenName": "UserName",
"familyName": "UserLastName"
},
"suspended": False,
"password": "my password",
"hashFunction": "SHA-1",
"changePasswordAtNextLogin": False,
"agreedToTerms": True,
"ipWhitelisted": False
},
{
"primaryEmail": "second.user#exnesstest.com",
"name": {
"givenName": "FirstName",
"familyName": "LastName"
},
"suspended": False,
"password": "my password",
"hashFunction": "SHA-1",
"changePasswordAtNextLogin": False,
"agreedToTerms": True,
"ipWhitelisted": False
}
]
users = service.users().insert(body=req).execute()
I get some error like:
googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/users?alt=json returned "Invalid Input: primary_user_email">
How can I add multiple users in this way?

Answer 1

You would have to use a BatchRequest if you want to send multiple actions in one API call. Here is an example from the Python documentation provided by google
def list_animals(request_id, response, exception):
if exception is not None:
# Do something with the exception
pass
else:
# Do something with the response
pass
def list_farmers(request_id, response):
"""Do something with the farmers list response."""
pass
service = build('farm', 'v2')
batch = service.new_batch_http_request()
batch.add(service.animals().list(), callback=list_animals)
batch.add(service.farmers().list(), callback=list_farmers)
batch.execute()
You can read more about the method here : https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/batch
Or use the github repository directly (where the example came from): https://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/batch.html
The only thing you need to be aware of is the threshold of requests send per second/minute/hour , but google would error out if you exceed the limit and you would have to limit the requests using an Exponential Backoff