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Searching for Distinct Resource Users or Owners

Function

This API is used to search for distinct principals that you are sharing resources with or share resources with you.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.

If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
ram:sharedPrincipals:searchDistinctPrincipal	List	-	-	-	-

URI

POST /v1/shared-principals/search-distinct-principal

Request Parameters

**Table 1** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Security-Token	No	String	Security token (session token) for temporary security credentials. This parameter is mandatory when you make an API call using temporary security credentials.

**Table 2** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
limit	No	Integer	Maximum number of results on a page. If the limit parameter is not specified, the default value is 2,000.
marker	No	String	Page marker.
principals	No	Array of strings	List of principals associated with the resource share.
resource_urn	No	String	URN of the resource.
resource_owner	Yes	String	Resource owner (self or other-accounts) of the resource share.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
distinct_shared_principals	Array of DistinctSharedPrincipal objects	List of distinct roles.
page_info	PageInfo object	Pagination details.

**Table 4** DistinctSharedPrincipal
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Account ID of the principal or resource owner, or URN of the resource in the resource share.
updated_at	String	Time when the resource share was last updated.

**Table 5** PageInfo
Parameter	Type	Description
previous_marker	String	Marker of the previous page.
next_marker	String	Marker of the next page.
current_count	Integer	Number of pages.

Example Requests

Searching for distinct principals that you are sharing resources with or share resources with you

POST /v1/shared-principals/search-distinct-principal

{
  "limit" : 2000,
  "marker" : "string",
  "principals" : [ "string" ],
  "resource_urn" : "string",
  "resource_owner" : "self"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

{
  "distinct_shared_principals" : [ {
    "id" : "string",
    "updated_at" : "2022-09-19T02:33:45.205Z"
  } ],
  "page_info" : {
    "previous_marker" : "string",
    "next_marker" : "string",
    "current_count" : 2000
  }
}