[Vtigercrm-developers] How to use server api to get information about assigned user, like their name?

[Alan Lord]

I'm working on another idea for a module and to work within the rules of 
the Marketplace I am trying to use the server API vtws_retrieve to get 
information about the assigned_user_id of a record to display in a 
different environment. I am using vtws_retrieve to get the data from the 
original record, but I can't do the same to get "display" data regarding 
the assigned user...

If I try something like:

> vtws_retrieve('19x22', $current_user) 

And I am that current user, e.g. id 22, then the call fails with 
"Permission to perform the operation is denied"

All I actually want is to get some of the basic data like the display 
name (first_name + ' ' + last_name) and maybe their email/phone etc...

But this seems to be not possible.

What is the correct way to do this? I could, or course use a different 
user to make these calls i.e. Users::getActiveAdminUser(), but I am not 
sure if that would be permitted by the marketplace rules.

PS: Also in many ways, it's a lot easier using things like the record 
models as they have built in methods like getDisplayName()...