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:

http

GET /plone/@groups HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0

curl

curl -i http://nohost/plone/@groups -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret

httpie

http -j http://nohost/plone/@groups -a admin:secret

python-requests

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:

http

GET /plone/@groups?query=plo HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0

curl

curl -i 'http://nohost/plone/@groups?query=plo' -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret

httpie

http -j 'http://nohost/plone/@groups?query=plo' -a admin:secret

python-requests

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:

http

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

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

httpie

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

python-requests

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:

http

GET /plone/@groups/ploneteam HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0

curl

curl -i http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret

httpie

http -j http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -a admin:secret

python-requests

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:

http

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

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

httpie

http -j PATCH http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam email=ploneteam2@plone.org users:='{"test_user_1_": false}' -a admin:secret

python-requests

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:

http

DELETE /plone/@groups/ploneteam HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0

curl

curl -i -X DELETE http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -H "Accept: application/json" --user admin:secret

httpie

http -j DELETE http://nohost/plone/@groups/ploneteam -a admin:secret

python-requests

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