Guidelines at querying users/group in XWiki from the REST API

[mhow2]

Hi there,
I’ve been crawling at the REST API documentation in https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI still I’m unsure what could be the best way to:

• check if a given user exists (and probably get basic metadata about it). For this I suppose I have to look for the page that hold the user info. Something like query https://xwiki.instance/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/XWiki/pages/\<username> should do the trick or is there a better way ?
• remove an user from XWiki. Here I assume I should delete the above page but what about the group membership ? I should remove the user from the group(s) he is member of as well. How would you do that efficiently ?

Cheers

[tmortagne]

@mhow2

check if a given user exists (and probably get basic metadata about it). For this I suppose I have to look for the page that hold the user info. Something like query https://xwiki.instance/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/XWiki/pages/ should do the trick or is there a better way ?

Yes there is currently no user/group oriented REST API so that would be the way.

@mhow2

remove an user from XWiki. Here I assume I should delete the above page but what about the group membership ? I should remove the user from the group(s) he is member of as well. How would you do that efficiently ?

Actually this is done automatically in a listener in XWiki (which also means that deleting a user document might take a little while in some conditions).