GET /api/groups/{gid}/members
List a group's members.
Lists the members of the group named by {gid}.
An empty members list means the group has no members. It does not mean the group is
missing. The key server answers an empty list for both cases and cannot tell them
apart, so this route resolves the group id SEPARATELY first and answers 404 only when
that read finds nothing -- or finds something that is not a group.
There is no POST /api/groups: a group IS a principal, so it is created at
POST /api/principals with type: group and listed at
GET /api/principals?type=group. Only membership lives here.
Every id is carried in both spellings, and the difference matters on the very next call:
the hex id is what these path segments take, while principalId (decimal) plus
systemId are what POST /api/keys/acl/grant takes to give this GROUP access to a key --
which is the usual reason to have made one.
Authentication
Send the session id as Authorization: Bearer <session id>, and an RFC 9449 DPoP proof in the DPoP header if your session is bound to a key. The two are required together, not as alternatives — see Authenticating and Proving you hold your key.
There is no session cookie on any response and none is read on any request. Do not set credentials: "include" on a browser fetch.
Parameters
| Name | In | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
gid | path | yes | string | A group's principal id as 16 hex digits (the id field, not principalId). |
Request
No request body.
Responses
200
The group and its members.
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
gid | string | yes | |
group | Principal | yes | A principal, carrying its id in BOTH spellings because different routes take different ones. id (16 hex digits) is what this API's {id}, {gid} and {pid} path segments take; principalId (a decimal string of the same eight bytes) together with systemId is what the ACL and export routes take. |
count | integer | yes | |
members | array of Principal | yes | A principal, carrying its id in BOTH spellings because different routes take different ones. id (16 hex digits) is what this API's {id}, {gid} and {pid} path segments take; principalId (a decimal string of the same eight bytes) together with systemId is what the ACL and export routes take. |
detail | string | no |
Principal
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
id | string | no | 16 hex digits. |
principalId | string or null | no | The same eight bytes as a decimal string. A string, so that an id above 2^53 survives. |
systemId | integer or null | no | Assigned by the key server at setup. READ IT FROM THE SERVER; a hardcoded value addresses a principal that does not exist and yields a misleading "unknown principal". |
className | string or null | no | The key server's own class name -- UserAndPasswordInfo, TransportPrincipalInfo, LdapPrincipalInfo, XAuthPrincipalInfo or GroupInfo. |
name | string or null | no | |
disabled | boolean or null | no | |
roleIds | array of string | no | |
groupIds | array of string | no |
Example
{
"gid": "...",
"group": {
"id": "...",
"principalId": "...",
"systemId": 0,
"className": "...",
"name": "...",
"disabled": true,
"roleIds": [
"..."
],
"groupIds": [
"..."
]
},
"count": 0,
"members": [
{
"id": "...",
"principalId": "...",
"systemId": 0,
"className": "...",
"name": "...",
"disabled": true,
"roleIds": [
"..."
],
"groupIds": [
"..."
]
}
],
"detail": "..."
}
400
BAD_REQUEST -- gid is not 16 hex digits.
401
No live session, or a DPoP proof that did not verify.
SESSION_NOT_FOUND -- the credential names no session this Gateway holds.
SESSION_EXPIRED -- it aged out. Both carry reauth: true; obtain a new credential
rather than retrying.
PROOF_* -- the sender constraint refused. See the DPoP section of this document for the
full table; PROOF_MALFORMED is a 400 and PROOF_REPLAY_CACHE_FULL a 503, and the
rest are here.
SCOPED_CREDENTIAL_EXPIRED -- a scoped browser credential passed its fixed lifetime. Use
does not extend it: an idle timeout would be refreshed by exactly the traffic a stolen
handle produces.
403
Authenticated, and refused. The codes differ in what they say about where the refusal
came from: ACCESS_DENIED and PRINCIPAL_DISABLED are the key server's, while
NOT_WRITABLE, BUILT_IN_PRINCIPAL, OWN_ACCOUNT and
OBJECT_NOT_IN_CREDENTIAL_SCOPE are decided by the Gateway before anything is sent.
404
NO_GROUP -- no principal with that id. NOT_A_GROUP -- a principal with that id exists and is not a group; it is refused rather than read, because reading it would have answered an empty list that a caller would reasonably take for "this group is empty".
500
A fault rather than a refusal.
OP_FAILED is the catch-all: the key server refused in words that match no classified
pattern, so the Gateway cannot say more than that the operation did not happen. Some key
server refusals that are conceptually a caller error arrive here rather than as a 4xx,
because the wire carries no distinguishing code -- where a route can recognise one from
its message it maps it, and each such mapping is documented on the operation.
503
A capacity ceiling or a missing deployment prerequisite. retryable says which.
A scope of session or process names the ceiling that was hit, and the response
carries Retry-After.
Error handling
Every failure answers JSON carrying at least code and detail. Match on code — detail is written for a human debugging the call and its wording is not part of the contract. See the error model.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
400 | BAD_REQUEST -- gid is not 16 hex digits. |
401 | No live session, or a DPoP proof that did not verify. SESSION_NOT_FOUND -- the credential names no session this Gateway holds. SESSION_EXPIRED -- it aged out. Both carry reauth: true; obtain a new credential rather than retrying. PROOF_* -- the sender constraint refused. See the DPoP section of this document for the full table; PROOF_MALFORMED is a 400 and PROOF_REPLAY_CACHE_FULL a 503, and the rest are here. SCOPED_CREDENTIAL_EXPIRED -- a scoped browser credential passed its fixed lifetime. Use does not extend it: an idle timeout would be refreshed by exactly the traffic a stolen handle produces. |
403 | Authenticated, and refused. The codes differ in what they say about where the refusal came from: ACCESS_DENIED and PRINCIPAL_DISABLED are the key server's, while NOT_WRITABLE, BUILT_IN_PRINCIPAL, OWN_ACCOUNT and OBJECT_NOT_IN_CREDENTIAL_SCOPE are decided by the Gateway before anything is sent. |
404 | NO_GROUP -- no principal with that id. NOT_A_GROUP -- a principal with that id exists and is not a group; it is refused rather than read, because reading it would have answered an empty list that a caller would reasonably take for "this group is empty". |
500 | A fault rather than a refusal. OP_FAILED is the catch-all: the key server refused in words that match no classified pattern, so the Gateway cannot say more than that the operation did not happen. Some key server refusals that are conceptually a caller error arrive here rather than as a 4xx, because the wire carries no distinguishing code -- where a route can recognise one from its message it maps it, and each such mapping is documented on the operation. |
503 | A capacity ceiling or a missing deployment prerequisite. retryable says which. A scope of session or process names the ceiling that was hit, and the response carries Retry-After. |