FR: Provide a way to get all users or groups of users

[firebase]

FR: Provide a way to get all users or groups of users

[hiranya911]

@windsurfdrew We released this API for Node.js today. It will be ported to Python soon. If you like you can also help us expedite the launch by providing a pull request.

The Node.js implementation can be found at https://github.com/firebase/firebase-admin-node/blob/master/src/auth/auth.ts#L200

[hiranya911]

I believe @bojeil-google has been working on something along the 1st requirement. 2nd requirement is supported in the backend REST API. I wonder if we should simply expose that in the SDK.

[bojeil-google]

1. list all users is in the works.
2. getting a list of users given a list of uids would be done with a wrapper for getUser. You can easily implement that. This is not a popular request unlike the first one.

[hiranya911]

@bojeil-google Since ID toolkit REST API accepts lists of UIDs, emails and phone numbers, can we implement a bulk get with just one call to the server (as opposed to getting one user at a time, in a loop)? I agree, it's not a very common feature request. I'm just curious to know.

[bojeil-google]

This is really a low priority. It is actually the first time i see this request. There are many other critical features that have higher priority. I personally don't think we should support it until we see a decent amount of requests for it.

[windsurfdrew]

We're creating firebase users that only exist for the duration of the session, along the lines of the firebase for real time events example. We need to periodically clean up the orphaned firebase users from clients who have not exited gracefully. It would be helpful both to get the full list of users and be able to bulk delete a set of users.

[hiranya911]

This was released in v2.6.0