Find a group by group name with Groovy

Q&A
1

I currently use this Groovy script to get the user of a group. Is there any way to simplify this and query a group using the group name directly instead of the full path to the group?

long groupId = identityAPI.getGroupByPath("/amce/hr/mygroup").id
SearchOptionsBuilder builder = new SearchOptionsBuilder(0, 1)
builder.filter(UserSearchDescriptor.GROUP_ID, groupId)
long userId = identityAPI.searchUsers(builder.done())result.get(0).id
2

Hi, 

A group name is not a unique identifier, since you can have several groups with the same name, for example, the group name is "europe" for both paths:

  • "/acme/sales/europe"
  • "/acme/hr/europe"

So you can use the path or the ID (identityAPI.getGroup​(long groupId)) to identify a Group, but you can't use the Name. 

HTH, 
Marielle