Add user roles programatically

I was trying to add a singup via API, and located this: Forget password and Sign Up rest api in frappe app

As said above, I was able to locate this method

@frappe.whitelist(allow_guest=True)
def sign_up(email, full_name, redirect_to):
	if not is_signup_enabled():
		frappe.throw(_('Sign Up is disabled'), title='Not Allowed')

	user = frappe.db.get("User", {"email": email})
	if user:
		if user.disabled:
			return 0, _("Registered but disabled")
		else:
			return 0, _("Already Registered")
	else:
		if frappe.db.sql("""select count(*) from tabUser where
			HOUR(TIMEDIFF(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP(modified)))=1""")[0][0] > 300:

			frappe.respond_as_web_page(_('Temperorily Disabled'),
				_('Too many users signed up recently, so the registration is disabled. Please try back in an hour'),
				http_status_code=429)

		from frappe.utils import random_string
		user = frappe.get_doc({
			"doctype":"User",
			"email": email,
			"first_name": full_name,
			"enabled": 1,
			"new_password": random_string(10),
			"user_type": "Website User"
		})
		user.flags.ignore_permissions = True
		user.insert()

		# set default signup role as per Portal Settings
		default_role = frappe.db.get_value("Portal Settings", None, "default_role")
		if default_role:
			user.add_roles(default_role)

		if redirect_to:
			frappe.cache().hset('redirect_after_login', user.name, redirect_to) 

		if user.flags.email_sent:
			return 1, _("Please check your email for verification")
		else:
			return 2, _("Please ask your administrator to verify your sign-up")

So I copied this function to modify my requirements.

Here is my modified function:

@frappe.whitelist(allow_guest=True)
def sign_up(email, phone, full_name, password, confirm_password):
	user = frappe.db.get("User", {"email": email})
	if password != confirm_password:
		return {'status': 0, 'message': _("Passwords doesn't match.")}

	if user:
		if user.disabled:
			return {'status': 0, 'message': _("Registered but disabled")}
		else:
			return {'status': 0, 'message': _("Already Registered")}
	else:
		if frappe.db.sql("""select count(*) from tabUser where
			HOUR(TIMEDIFF(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP(modified)))=1""")[0][0] > 300:

			frappe.respond_as_web_page(_('Temperorily Disabled'),
				_('Too many users signed up recently, so the registration is disabled. Please try back in an hour'),
				http_status_code=429)

		from frappe.utils import random_string
		user = frappe.get_doc({
			"doctype":"User",
			"email": email,
			"first_name": full_name,
			"enabled": 1,
			"phone": phone,
			"new_password": password,
			'user_type': 'Website User'
		})
		user.flags.ignore_permissions = True
		user.insert()

		u = frappe.get_doc('User', email)
		u.append('roles',{
			"doctype": "Has Role",
			"role":"Owner"
		})
		u.role_profile_name = 'Owner'
		u.save(ignore_permissions=True)

		if user.flags.email_sent:
			return {'status': 1, 'message': _("Please check your email for verification")}
		else:
			return {'status': 2, 'message': _("Please ask your administrator to verify your sign-up")}

Everything works here, except adding roles to the user. What am I missing?

I also located this question (Adding role to user via code) , having similar answer, but doesn’t seem to work.

This is the code I am using to add the user profile as said here (Adding role to a user by code - #2 by ManasSolanki)

		u = frappe.get_doc('User', email)
		u.append('roles',{
			"doctype": "Has Role",
			"role":"Owner"
		})
		u.role_profile_name = 'Owner'
		u.save(ignore_permissions=True)

Please let me know what I am missing.

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@rmehta - can you help me with this?

@Sibidharan_Nandhakum Did you found the solutions , Any Updates?

Hi how about removing a role? What should I use?