Is there an API to search Crowd by properties/attributes?

[Patrick Lightbody]

Related to this question, an alternative way I might solve the problem is to store a new unique username as an attribute on the Crowd user. However, it's not clear looking at the REST API that I can search by property key/value pairs. For example, I currently can search for username or email like so:

TermRestriction<String> byEmail = new TermRestriction<String>(UserTermKeys.EMAIL, email);
TermRestriction<String> byUsername = new TermRestriction<String>(UserTermKeys.USERNAME, username);
SearchRestriction search = new BooleanRestrictionImpl(BooleanRestriction.BooleanLogic.OR, byEmail, byUsername);
List<User> users = crowdClient.searchUsers(search, 0, 10);

The question is: can I search by user attribute instead?

Thanks!

Patrick

[Andrey Larionov]

As i can find, there are com.atlassian.crowd.search.query.entity.restriction.constants.AliasTermKeys in crowd-api-2.2.8 at least. Comments says what this Term respond for users aliases. There is also public interface com.atlassian.crowd.manager.application.AliasManager.

But as i understand it will actually work only in Crowd, not in EmbededCrowd.

[Patrick Lightbody]

What do you mean when you say "Crowd" or "EmbeddedCrowd"? I'm looking for something that will let me make remote queries using the REST or SOAP API. Those interfaces look like they would require a Crowd plugin, yes?

[Andrey Larionov]

Also i think your could expose needed logic by writing your own REST plugin for crowd

[Andrey Larionov]

Since JIRA 4.3 it has embedded crowd for user management.

But looking deep in source of Crowd i can say what Alias search is not exposed in remote API. According to http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWDDEV/Crowd+Query+Language it's not possible.

I think you could raise issue in support tracker