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Get a User by Name

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {PROJECT-ID} is the same as your project id. For existing groups, your group/project id remains the same. This page uses the more familiar term group when referring to descriptions. The endpoint remains as stated in the document.

You can always retrieve your own user account. Otherwise, you must have the Project User Admin role in at least one project that is common between you and the user you are retrieving.

You cannot use this endpoint to return information on an API Key. Request the Get One API Key endpoint to get this information.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource

GET /users/byName/{USER-NAME}

Request Path Parameters

Parameter Type Description
USER-NAME string (Required.) Username of the MongoDB user that you want to retrieve.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name Type Necessity Description Default
pretty boolean Optional Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean Optional

Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

Name Description
status HTTP response code
envelope Expected response body
false

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

Response

The HTTP document contains each of the following elements:

Name Type Description
emailAddress string Email address of the Cloud Manager user.
firstName string First name of the Cloud Manager user.
id string Unique identifier of the Cloud Manager user.
lastName string Last name of the Cloud Manager user.
links object array Links to related sub-resources. All links arrays in responses include at least one link called self. The relationship between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.
mobileNumber string Mobile number of the Cloud Manager user.
roles object array Role assignments.
roles.groupId string Unique identifier for the project in which the user has the specified role.
roles.orgId string Unique identifier for the organization in which the user has the specified role.
roles.roleName string

Name of the role. Values are:

Note

The users resource returns all the roles the user has in both Cloud Manager and MongoDB Atlas.

Value Description
ORG_MEMBER Organization Member
ORG_READ_ONLY Organization Read Only
ORG_BILLING_ADMIN Organization Billing Admin
ORG_GROUP_CREATOR Organization Project Creator
ORG_OWNER Organization Owner
GROUP_ATLAS_ADMIN Project Admin (Atlas)
GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN Project Automation Admin
GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN Project Backup Admin
GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN Project Monitoring Admin
GROUP_OWNER Project Owner
GROUP_READ_ONLY Project Read Only
GROUP_USER_ADMIN Project User Admin
GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN Project Billing Admin
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN Project Data Access Admin
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY Project Data Access Read Only
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE Project Data Access Read/Write
username string Username of the Cloud Manager user.

Example Request

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --include \
 --request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/users/byName/jane"

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

{
  "emailAddress" : "jane@qa.example.com",
  "firstName" : "Jane",
  "id" : "533dc19ce4b00835ff81e2eb",
  "lastName" : "D'oh",
  "roles" : [ {
    "groupId" : "{PROJECT-ID}",
    "roleName" : "GROUP_USER_ADMIN"
  },{
    "orgId" : "55555bbe3bd5253aea2d9b16",
    "roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
  } ],
  "links" : [],
  "username": "jane"
}