[scim] Retrieving members of a group

Jaap Francke <jaap.francke@iwelcome.com> Tue, 04 December 2018 10:04 UTC

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Hi all,

I would like to have my understanding confirmed on usage of the GROUP endpoint.

When I do a GET on the GROUP endpoint, the members attribute of a returned GROUP resoiurce contains a list of all members of that group.
If the group contains only a few members, that’s not a problem.
However, when the group contains a lot of members, the payload gets “too big” and pagination for the members does not apply.

I assume the way to solve this is to return a partial representation of the group resource by setting the schema metadata returned=never (or returned=request) in the group schema definition?
When doing so, a GET on the GROUP endpoint results in a list of groups with common resource attributes (id, externalid, meta) and group displayName.

To retrieve the list of members of a group, one would have to do a GET on the user endpoint using a filter on the groups attribute, right? In this case pagination does apply.

Your responses are appreciated, thanks!

Jaap Francke