[scim] Re: Pagination Support for Multi-Valued Attributes in SCIM 2.0
Daniel Cormier <daniel.cormier+ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 29 January 2026 14:32 UTC
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Subject: [scim] Re: Pagination Support for Multi-Valued Attributes in SCIM 2.0
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We've had the same problem getting groups with many members (some with
> 100k). For what it's worth, since it is an internal implementation,
we added a new endpoint: GET /Groups/{id}/members. Our flow was to
retrieve the group (GET /Groups/{id}) with its members excluded, then
paginate through GET /Group/{id}/members separately. It worked well
for our case.
Some previous discussion around group member pagination:
* <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/scim/YCcs_ZRWOo4HM8zxKbXlAi2Cpag/>
<-- Mentions the same solution we used
* <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/scim/67Bd0iotMoEx5rcjCUsHUzQzQGU/>
* <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/scim/txBFAJgcxb0mhIi1Bp0jaL6t2WU/>
- [scim] Re: Pagination Support for Multi-Valued At… Daniel Cormier
- [scim] Pagination Support for Multi-Valued Attrib… saurabh kushwaha
- [scim] Re: Pagination Support for Multi-Valued At… Phillip Hunt
- [scim] Re: Pagination Support for Multi-Valued At… Danny Zollner