[SENTRY-2440] Add a new thrift API for checking if a user is in admin group

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Assignee: Hao Hao
• Reporter: Hao Hao
• Created: 31/Oct/18 22:50
• Updated: 13/Feb/19 19:47
• Resolved: 13/Feb/19 19:47

Description

It can be helpful to Sentry client if there is a way to tell if the requestor user is within admin group. In order to recognize failure earlier than actually making a call to privileged API such as 'create_role', 'drop_role'.

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