Groups¶
Available groups in a Plone site can be created, queried, updated and deleted by interacting with the /@groups
endpoint on portal root (requires an authenticated user):
List Groups¶
To retrieve a list of all current groups in the portal, call the /@groups
endpoint with a GET
request:
GET /plone/@groups HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0
curl -i http://nohost/plone/@groups -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret
http -j http://nohost/plone/@groups -a admin:secret
requests.get('http://nohost/plone/@groups', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, auth=('admin', 'secret'))
The server will respond with a list of all groups in the portal:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/Administrators",
"description": "",
"email": "",
"groupname": "Administrators",
"id": "Administrators",
"title": "Administrators"
},
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/Reviewers",
"description": "",
"email": "",
"groupname": "Reviewers",
"id": "Reviewers",
"title": "Reviewers"
},
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/Site Administrators",
"description": "",
"email": "",
"groupname": "Site Administrators",
"id": "Site Administrators",
"title": "Site Administrators"
},
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/ploneteam",
"description": "We are Plone",
"email": "ploneteam@plone.org",
"groupname": "ploneteam",
"id": "ploneteam",
"title": "Plone Team"
},
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/AuthenticatedUsers",
"description": "Automatic Group Provider",
"email": "",
"groupname": "AuthenticatedUsers",
"id": "AuthenticatedUsers",
"title": "Authenticated Users (Virtual Group)"
}
]
The endpoint supports some basic filtering:
GET /plone/@groups?query=plo HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0
curl -i 'http://nohost/plone/@groups?query=plo' -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret
http -j 'http://nohost/plone/@groups?query=plo' -a admin:secret
requests.get('http://nohost/plone/@groups?query=plo', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, auth=('admin', 'secret'))
The server will respond with a list the filtered groups in the portal with groupname starts with the query.
The endpoint also takes a limit
parameter that defaults to a maximum of 25 groups at a time for performance reasons.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/ploneteam",
"description": "We are Plone",
"email": "ploneteam@plone.org",
"groupname": "ploneteam",
"id": "ploneteam",
"title": "Plone Team"
}
]
Create Group¶
To create a new group, send a POST
request to the global /@groups
endpoint with a JSON representation of the group you want to create in the body:
POST /plone/@groups HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0
Content-Type: application/json
{
"description": "The Plone Framework Team",
"email": "fwt@plone.org",
"groupname": "fwt",
"groups": [
"Administrators"
],
"roles": [
"Manager"
],
"title": "Framework Team",
"users": [
"admin",
"test_user_1_"
]
}
curl -i -X POST http://nohost/plone/@groups -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-raw '{"description": "The Plone Framework Team", "email": "fwt@plone.org", "groupname": "fwt", "groups": ["Administrators"], "roles": ["Manager"], "title": "Framework Team", "users": ["admin", "test_user_1_"]}' --user admin:secret
http -j POST http://nohost/plone/@groups description="The Plone Framework Team" email=fwt@plone.org groupname=fwt groups:='["Administrators"]' roles:='["Manager"]' title="Framework Team" users:='["admin", "test_user_1_"]' -a admin:secret
requests.post('http://nohost/plone/@groups', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, json={'description': 'The Plone Framework Team', 'email': 'fwt@plone.org', 'groupname': 'fwt', 'groups': [u'Administrators'], 'roles': [u'Manager'], 'title': 'Framework Team', 'users': [u'admin', u'test_user_1_']}, auth=('admin', 'secret'))
Note
By default, “groupname” is a required field.
If the group has been created successfully, the server will respond with a status 201 (Created)
. The Location
header contains the URL of the newly created group and the resource representation in the payload:
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Location: http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/fwt
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/fwt",
"description": "The Plone Framework Team",
"email": "fwt@plone.org",
"groupname": "fwt",
"id": "fwt",
"title": "Framework Team",
"users": {
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups",
"items": [
"Administrators",
"admin",
"test_user_1_"
],
"items_total": 3
}
}
Read Group¶
To retrieve all details for a particular group, send a GET
request to the /@groups
endpoint and append the group id to the URL:
GET /plone/@groups/ploneteam HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0
curl -i http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret
http -j http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -a admin:secret
requests.get('http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, auth=('admin', 'secret'))
The server will respond with a 200 OK
status code and the JSON representation of the group in the body:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/ploneteam",
"description": "We are Plone",
"email": "ploneteam@plone.org",
"groupname": "ploneteam",
"id": "ploneteam",
"title": "Plone Team",
"users": {
"@id": "http://localhost:55001/plone/@groups/ploneteam",
"items": [],
"items_total": 0
}
}
Batching is supported for the ‘users’ object.
Update Group¶
To update the settings of a group, send a PATCH
request with the group details you want to amend to the URL of that particular group:
PATCH /plone/@groups/ploneteam HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0
Content-Type: application/json
{
"email": "ploneteam2@plone.org",
"users": {
"test_user_1_": false
}
}
curl -i -X PATCH http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-raw '{"email": "ploneteam2@plone.org", "users": {"test_user_1_": false}}' --user admin:secret
http -j PATCH http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam email=ploneteam2@plone.org users:='{"test_user_1_": false}' -a admin:secret
requests.patch('http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, json={'email': 'ploneteam2@plone.org', 'users': OrderedDict([(u'test_user_1_', False)])}, auth=('admin', 'secret'))
Note
The ‘users’ object is a mapping of a user_id and a boolean indicating adding or removing from the group.
A successful response to a PATCH request will be indicated by a 204 No Content response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Delete Group¶
To delete a group send a DELETE
request to the /@groups
endpoint and append the group id of the group you want to delete:
DELETE /plone/@groups/ploneteam HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0
curl -i -X DELETE http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret
http -j DELETE http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -a admin:secret
requests.delete('http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, auth=('admin', 'secret'))
A successful response will be indicated by a 204 No Content response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content