User Attributes:What is the use of "type":"known" attributes in User Management in Confluence Cloud?

Rokesh Lakshmipathy

Hi,

         I am able to fetch single user details using the URL mentioned below.

http://example.com/rest/api/user?key=4028sdfsdfsd767sdfsd 

JSON Response:

{<br>"type": "known"<br>},<br>"_links": {<br>"base": "http://myhost:8080/confluence",<br>"context": "/confluence",<br>"self": "http://myhost:8080/confluence/rest/experimental/user?key=402880824ff933a4014ff9345d7c0002"<br>},<br>"_expandable": {<br>"status": "",

"operation":"",

"details":""<br>}<br>}

can someone explain what is need for&nbsp;<strong>type,_expandable</strong> and <strong>_links</strong>&nbsp;attributes in User Management in Confluence.

 

Mark Bereznitsky

Hello @Rokesh Lakshmipathy,

_expandable and _links are standard entities in a REST object response. They describe which fields can be further expanded (by indicating them in the request, for example, expand=...). 

You can visit this page for a more detailed explanation:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#using

 

The type field indicates whether the user is anonymous or known to the system.