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You will have 100+ users registered with WSO2 EMM. If you want wish to retrieve the user details of a specific user, and you only remember the users email addresspart of the user's username, you are able to retrieve the user details using the REST API given below.by giving a character or a few characters in the username. 

Resource Path/view-users-by-username
URL/mdm-admin/users/view-users?username={username}
HTTP MethodGET
Request/Response Formatapplication/json
cURL command
Code Block
curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <EMM_API_TOKEN>" -k -v https://<EMM_HOST>:<EMM_HTTPS_PORT>/mdm-admin/users/view-users-by-username?username={username}
  • For more information on how to generate the <EMM_API_TOKEN>, see Generating the EMM API Token.
  • By default, <EMM_HOST> is localhost. However, if you are using a public IP, the respective IP address or domain needs to be specified.
  • By default, <EMM_HTTPS_PORT> has been set to 9443. However, if the port offset has been incremented by n, the default port value needs to be incremented by n.
  • Provide any user detail of the user as the value for {username} to retrieve the user details, such as email address, first name or last name.

Example:

Code Block
curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer 33392fb365b3ac693b405b565ddc8a3a" -k -v https://localhost:9443/mdm-admin/users/view-users-by-username?username=kim@gmail.comi
 Sample output
Code Block
> GET /mdm-admin/users/view-users?username=kim@gmail.com HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:9443
> User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Authorization: Bearer 465488cd92c200d3203d138438e9f24d
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Cache-Control: private
< Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 05:30:00 IST
< Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 08:28:07 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Content-Length: 135
< Server: WSO2 Carbon Server
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{"statusCode":200,"messageFromServer":"All users by username were successfully retrieved. Obtained user count: 03","responseContent":[{"username":"admin"},{"username":"jim","firstname":"Jim","lastname":"Bar","emailAddress":"jim@gmail.com"},{"username":"kim","firstname":"Kim","lastname":"Bar","emailAddress":"kim@gmail.com"}]}
Sample JSON Output
Definition 
Code Block
{
      "username": "jim",
      "firstname": "Jim",
      "lastname": "Bar",
      "emailAddress": "jim@gmail.com"
    },
    {
      "username": "kim",
      "firstname": "Kim",
      "lastname": "Bar",
      "emailAddress": "kim@gmail.com"
    }

The user details of the users having the letter I in their user names is given as the output:

PropertyDefinition
usernameThe name of the user. In this sample all the users having the letter I in their user name are given.
firstnameThe first name of the user.
lastnameThe last name of the user.
emailaddressThe email address of the user.