Getting Collections

Requests for collection resources are the same as those for non-collection resources. For example, an authenticated request to the UserAccount endpoint returns a collection containing the portal’s users. When sending this request, use the credentials of an administrative user who has permission to view other portal users:

curl "http://localhost:8080/o/headless-admin-user/v1.0/user-accounts"  -u '[e-mail]:test'

The response (below) has two main parts:

• The list of collection elements, inside the items attribute. This example contains data on two users: an administrator (Test), and a user named Javier Gamarra.

• A set of metadata about the collection. This is the rest of the data in the response. This lets clients know how to use the collection.

This response is in JSON, which is the default response format for web APIs in Liferay DXP. For information on specifying other response formats, see API Formats and Content Negotiation.

{
  "items": [
    {
      "alternateName": "test",
      "birthDate": "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "contactInformation": {},
      "dashboardURL": "/user/test",
      "dateCreated": "2019-04-17T20:37:19Z",
      "dateModified": "2019-04-22T09:56:35Z",
      "emailAddress": "[e-mail]",
      "familyName": "Test",
      "givenName": "Test",
      "id": 20130,
      "name": "Test Test",
      "profileURL": "/web/test",
      ...
    },
    {
      "alternateName": "nhpatt",
      "birthDate": "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "contactInformation": {},
      "dateCreated": "2019-04-22T10:38:36Z",
      "dateModified": "2019-04-22T10:38:37Z",
      "emailAddress": "[e-mail]",
      "familyName": "Gamarra",
      "givenName": "Javier",
      "id": 59347,
      "name": "Javier Gamarra",
      ...
    }
  ],
  "lastPage": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "pageSize": 20,
  "totalCount": 2
}

Related Topics

Pagination

Making Authenticated Requests

API Formats and Content Negotiation