Add admin API endpoint for creating users.

(imported from commit a8b919c7d21b28dfd75b6b95736a375874ead15f)

examples/create-user

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright © 2012-2013 Zulip, Inc.
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
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+#
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+# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+# THE SOFTWARE.
+
+import sys
+from os import path
+import optparse
+
+usage = """create-user --new-email=<email address> --new-password=<password> --new-full-name=<full name> --new-short-name=<short name> [options]
+
+Create a user. You must be a realm admin to use this API, and the user
+will be created in your realm.
+
+Example: create-user --site=http://localhost:9991 --user=rwbarton@zulip.com --new-email=jarthur@zulip.com --new-password=random17 --new-full-name 'J. Arthur Random' --new-short-name='jarthur'
+"""
+
+sys.path.append(path.join(path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
+import zulip
+
+parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usage)
+parser.add_option_group(zulip.generate_option_group(parser))
+parser.add_option('--new-email')
+parser.add_option('--new-password')
+parser.add_option('--new-full-name')
+parser.add_option('--new-short-name')
+(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+
+client = zulip.init_from_options(options)
+
+print client.create_user({
+        'email': options.new_email,
+        'password': options.new_password,
+        'full_name': options.new_full_name,
+        'short_name': options.new_short_name
+        })

zulip/__init__.py

@@ -360,3 +360,4 @@ Client._register('list_subscriptions', method='GET', url='users/me/subscriptions
 Client._register('add_subscriptions', url='users/me/subscriptions', make_request=_mk_subs)
 Client._register('remove_subscriptions', method='PATCH', url='users/me/subscriptions', make_request=_mk_rm_subs)
 Client._register('render_message', method='GET', url='messages/render')
+Client._register('create_user', method='POST', url='users')