Groups Service API v2

Groups Service API v2 Resources

Version 2 supports the authnfactor, classification, membership dependency (dependson), and optin and optout ACLS.

Group Information

Membership

Member

Searches

Group History

Group Affiliate

Large membership changes

If you are making large membership changes, say more than a few hundred, your experience will be better if you split your activity into adds or deletes of fifty to a hundred members at a time.  This tends to give you immediate feedback on successful changes and avoids possible session or connection timeouts.

Use of POST method

Warning: This use of POST is deprecated and will not be supported in future API versions.

The Groups v2 API accepts the POST method for two purposes:

1. URI too long
   If your uri would be too long for likely transport to the web service you may enclose it in a POST, with the elements:

   <span class="_method"> GET | PUT | DELETE </span> <span class="_uri"> uri </span>

   included in the POST document.  The path components of you actual URL must match those in the posted "_uri".

1. PUT content too big
   If your PUT content would be too big for likely transport to the web service you may enclose it in a POST, with the element:

   <span class="_method">PUT</span>

   included in the POST document.

Sample Code

• Ruby on Rails Client Sample Code
• Python Code Snippets for UW Groups Web Service
• How-to create, get, update, and delete a UW Groups Web Service resource with .NET
• PowerShell for Groups Service
• Test for group membership with java
• PHP example of operations with UW Groups Web Service
• See also Sample Client Code (with more PHP, C#, Ruby, etc.)
• Perl Sample Code

Contact Us

Email help@uw.edu to contact the staff in UW-IT who oversee this wiki space and the groups service.

Announcements : Join groups-announce@uw.edu for service announcements.

Discussion : Discuss the service with other customers and users on groups-users@uw.edu.