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Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

Mohit_m — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:25:09 GMT

Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

Re: Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

Prabakar — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:28:33 GMT

api/2.0/groups/list-parents

--data '{ "user_name": "someone@example.com" }'

Re: Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

Mohit_m — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:29:10 GMT

Please check the below curl command example which invokes list-parents endpoint from the Groups API. It can be extended/modified based on the requirements.

It retrieves all groups in which a given user or group is a member.

This method is non-recursive; it returns all groups in which the given user or group is a member but not the groups in which those groups are members.

Example:

curl --netrc -X GET \

https://xxxxx.cloud.databricks.com/api/2.0/groups/list-parents \

--data '{ "user_name": "someone@example.com" }' \

| jq .

Reference documentation from more details:

https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/groups.html#list-parents

Re: Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

Hubert-Dudek — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:31:09 GMT

Hi there is groups API.

https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/groups.html

There is example API call to list members of the group:

curl --netrc -X GET \
https://dbc-a1b2345c-d6e7.cloud.databricks.com/api/2.0/groups/list-members \
--data '{ "group_name": "reporting-department" }' \
| jq .

Re: Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

Prabakar — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:41:11 GMT

Hi @Hubert Dudek the API list-members will list all the members of the group, but here the question is to list all the groups of a user. So list-parents is the API to be used. This will give all groups in which a given user or group is a member.

https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/groups.html#list-parents

Re: Which rest API to use in order to list the groups that belong to a specific user

jose_gonzalez — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:46:40 GMT

@Mohit Miglani ,

Make sure to select the best option so the post will be moved to the top and will help in case more users have this question in the future.