- URL:https://<users-url>/search(POST only)
- Required Capability:Default administrator role | All authorized privileges
- Version Introduced:10.1
Description
This operation searches a specific user or a group of users from the user store. The size of the search result can be controlled with the maxCount parameter.
Request parameters
Parameter | Description |
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filter | A filter string to search the users. Example
|
maxCount | The maximum number of users that will be returned. Example
|
f | The response format. The default response format is html. Values: html | json | pjson |
Example usage
Below is a sample POST request for search that demonstrates how to return the first 20 users whose usernames start with 'john':
POST /webadaptor/admin/security/users/search HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []
filter=john&maxCount=20&f=json
JSON Response syntax
{
"users": [<user1>, <user2>],
"hasMore": <true|false>
}
JSON Response example
{
"users": [johnDoe, johnDern],
"hasMore": false
}