Members of a Security Group Are Not Displayed using REST API (Doc ID 2256241.1)

Last updated on JULY 06, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

When creating users and groups in WebCenter Portal (WCP), only the explicit users and groups are listed in the REST API, not the members of the Groups.

Example:
1.  Create a Portal and assign security members as follows:
    - weblogic (Moderator/owner) - user
    - testuser1 (Participant) - user
    - group1 (Participant) - group
      -- testuser2 (Participant) - user, member of group1
      -- testuser3 (Participant) - user, member of group1
    - group2 (Participant) - group
      -- testuser2 (Participant) - user, member of group2
      -- testuser4 (Participant) - user, member of group2

2.  Execute the REST API to review security members of the Portal:

http://<SERVERNAME>:<PORT>/rest/api/spaces/<PORTAL_NAME>/members?utoken=<TOKEN>

This only shows groups and users directly assigned privileges. In this case, "weblogic", "testuser1", "group1", and "group2" are shown.  However, "testuser2", "testuser3", and "testuser4" are not shown.

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