Programatically get permissions for list and Item – Client Object model SharePoint 2010

In this Post we have two code snippets, one for retrieving the Permissions on a specific list and other for getting the Permissions on a specific Item using Client Object model.

Get Permissions for a List –

//get the Conext
ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext(“SPSiteUrl”);

//get the list
List myList = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(“My List”);

IEnumerable roles = null;
roles = ctx.LoadQuery(
myList.RoleAssignments.Include(

roleAsg => roleAsg.Member,

roleAsg => roleAsg.RoleDefinitionBindings.Include(

roleDef => roleDef.Name, // for each role def, include roleDef’s Name

roleDef => roleDef.Description)));

ctx.ExecuteQuery();

Retrieving permissions for a Specific item - The Code is similar to the above code but i am using SecurableObject to hold the ListItem. Just to make things easy.

SecurableObject curObj = null;

ListItem curItem = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(“My List”).GetItemById(ItemId); -> Use ItemId of the Item.

//plug it into our query object
curObj = curItem as SecurableObject;

IEnumerable roles = null;

roles = ctx.LoadQuery(

curObj.RoleAssignments.Include(

roleAsg => roleAsg.Member,

roleAsg => roleAsg.RoleDefinitionBindings.Include(

roleDef => roleDef.Name, // for each role def, include roleDef’s Name

roleDef => roleDef.Description)));

ctx.ExecuteQuery();