Retrieve users via marker

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Ritika raina

• December 03, 2021 10:40

Hi, 

Need to know how we will get first 20 enterprise users and then get marker to read more users.

I found this method: BoxUser.getAllEnterpriseUsers(api, true, marker);

but didn't understand what need to set in fields in order to get the users.

With the above method, I am getting nullPointer exception and I have set marker as null .

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  Alex Novotny

  • December 06, 2021 16:28

  Correct! You will only get a marker if there are more results to grab. 

  Alex

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  Marie Rogers

  • December 03, 2021 21:00

  Hi Ritika,

  The Box API documentation includes a request example in Java using the getAllEnterpriseUsers method.

  The fields parameter is optional.

  https://developer.box.com/reference/get-users/

  Iterable<BoxUser.Info> users = BoxUser.getAllEnterpriseUsers(api, true, null); 
  
  // Get marker 
  String marker = ((BoxResourceIterable<BoxUser.Info>) users).getNextMarker();

  Thanks,

  Marie

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  Ritika raina

  • December 06, 2021 07:37

  Hi Marie,

  If I have only 2 users in that case why I am getting next marker.

  Assumption : I should get next marker only when there are lot of users and the limit exceeds the no. of users at a time otherwise next marker should be null.

  Need some clarification here.

   

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  Ritika raina

  • December 07, 2021 06:18

  Hi Alex Novotny

  Can you please share a java sdk method by which I can set limit while getting enterprise users?

  In api call I can see there is an option of limit, offset but not from java side.

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  Kamil Berdychowski

  • December 07, 2021 16:03

  Hi Ritika raina

   

  Currently Box Java SDK does not allow user to set limit when getting enterprise users.
  The API is designed this way that we are hiding marker/offset usage. You start by getting iterator over users:

  Iterable<BoxUser.Info> users = BoxUser.getAllEnterpriseUsers(api, true, null);

  now all the magic happens within SDK as you iterate over. So once your iterator  returns false it means that there are no more users.

  users.forEach(u -> System.out.println(u.getName()));

  should print two users if there are only those.
  If you want to start from some position you can specify marker:

  Iterable<BoxUser.Info> users = BoxUser.getAllEnterpriseUsers(api, true, 'position_to_start_from);

  I've checked why you are getting next marker from SDK and it is API behaviour. If API returns any results it returns next_marker . This field will not be returned only when there are no users returned.

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