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Added: v2.0.0
Status: Active
Last reviewed: 2018-04-05
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# Ecm User service
Gets information about a Content Services user.
## Class members
### Methods
- **getCurrentUserInfo**(): [`Observable`](http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html)`<`[`EcmUserModel`](../core/ecm-user.model.md)`>`<br/>
Gets information about the user who is currently logged-in.
- **Returns** [`Observable`](http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html)`<`[`EcmUserModel`](../core/ecm-user.model.md)`>` - User information as for getUserInfo
- **getUserInfo**(userName: `string`): [`Observable`](http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html)`<`[`EcmUserModel`](../core/ecm-user.model.md)`>`<br/>
Gets information about a user identified by their username.
- _userName:_ `string` - Target username
- **Returns** [`Observable`](http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html)`<`[`EcmUserModel`](../core/ecm-user.model.md)`>` - User information
- **getUserProfileImage**(avatarId: `string`): `string`<br/>
Returns a profile image as a URL.
- _avatarId:_ `string` - Target avatar
- **Returns** `string` - Image URL
## Details
The class returned by `getUserInfo` and `getCurrentUserInfo` is detailed
in the [Ecm User model docs](ecm-user.model.md). The `avatarId` passed to
`getUserProfileImage` is available as a field of the [`EcmUserModel`](../core/ecm-user.model.md) instance
returned for a particular person.
See the
[getPerson](https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-js-api/blob/master/src/alfresco-core-rest-api/docs/PeopleApi.md#getPerson)
method in the Alfresco JS API for more information about the REST calls used by this service.
## See also
- [Bpm user service](bpm-user.service.md)
- [Ecm user model](ecm-user.model.md)