Get appRoleAssignment

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Read the properties and relationships of an appRoleAssignment object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

The following table shows the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Supported resource	Delegated (work or school account)	Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Application
group	Group.Read.All	Not supported.	Group.Read.All
servicePrincipal	Application.Read.All	Not supported.	Application.Read.All
user	User.Read	Not supported.	Directory.Read.All

For delegated scenarios, the calling user needs at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

• Directory Readers
• Guest Inviter - Read app role assignments for users only
• Directory Synchronization Accounts
• Directory Writer
• Hybrid Identity Administrator
• Identity Governance Administrator
• Privileged Role Administrator
• User Administrator
• Application Administrator
• Cloud Application Administrator

HTTP request

To get details of an appRole granted to a service principal:

GET /servicePrincipals/{client-serviceprincipal-id}/appRoleAssignments/{appRoleAssignment-id}
GET /servicePrincipals(appId='{client-servicePrincipal-appId}')/appRoleAssignments/{appRoleAssignment-id}

To get details of an appRole granted to a user, group, or client service principal for the given resource service principal:

GET /servicePrincipals(appId='{resource-servicePrincipal-appId}')/appRoleAssignedTo/{appRoleAssignment-id}
GET /servicePrincipals/{resource-serviceprincipal-id}/appRoleAssignedTo/{appRoleAssignment-id}

To get details of an appRole granted to a group:

GET /groups/{group-id}/appRoleAssignments/{appRoleAssignment-id}

To get details of an appRole granted to a user:

GET /users/{user-id}/appRoleAssignments/{appRoleAssignment-id}
GET /me/appRoleAssignments/{appRoleAssignment-id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $select OData query parameter to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an appRoleAssignment object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get details of an app role granted to a user, group, or client service principal for the given resource service principal

Request

The following request queries the resource service principal to get details of an app role it has granted to a client that can be a user, group, or client service principal in the tenant.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals(appId='00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000')/appRoleAssignedTo/ep6PKgGvOkGVksMuwOXBpxV3dkHvwM1ElSjMUzZtaIA

Response

The following example shows the response. It shows a client service principal named Postman has been granted an app role with the ID df021288-bdef-4463-88db-98f22de89214 which is the User.Read.All application permission, for the resource service principal named Microsoft Graph.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#servicePrincipals('00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000')/appRoleAssignedTo/$entity",
    "id": "ep6PKgGvOkGVksMuwOXBpxV3dkHvwM1ElSjMUzZtaIA",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "appRoleId": "df021288-bdef-4463-88db-98f22de89214",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-02-24T17:01:47.0988029Z",
    "principalDisplayName": "Postman",
    "principalId": "2a8f9e7a-af01-413a-9592-c32ec0e5c1a7",
    "principalType": "ServicePrincipal",
    "resourceDisplayName": "Microsoft Graph",
    "resourceId": "7408235b-7540-4850-82fe-a5f15ed019e2"
}

Example 2: Get details of an app role granted to a service principal

Request

The following request queries the client service principal to get details of an app role granted to it. In this instance, the app role represents the application permission.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/servicePrincipals(appId='ceb96a54-de95-49a0-b38c-c55263fcf421')/appRoleAssignments/ep6PKgGvOkGVksMuwOXBpxV3dkHvwM1ElSjMUzZtaIA

Response

The following example shows the response. It shows a client service principal named Postman has been granted an app role with the ID df021288-bdef-4463-88db-98f22de89214 which is the User.Read.All application permission, for the resource service principal named Microsoft Graph.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#servicePrincipals('ceb96a54-de95-49a0-b38c-c55263fcf421')/appRoleAssignments/$entity",
    "id": "ep6PKgGvOkGVksMuwOXBpxV3dkHvwM1ElSjMUzZtaIA",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "appRoleId": "df021288-bdef-4463-88db-98f22de89214",
    "createdDateTime": "2023-02-24T17:01:47.0988029Z",
    "principalDisplayName": "Postman",
    "principalId": "2a8f9e7a-af01-413a-9592-c32ec0e5c1a7",
    "principalType": "ServicePrincipal",
    "resourceDisplayName": "Microsoft Graph",
    "resourceId": "7408235b-7540-4850-82fe-a5f15ed019e2"
}

Example 3: Get details of an app role granted to the signed-in user

Request

The following request queries the signed-in user's appRoleAssignments.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/appRoleAssignments/Lo6gEKI-4EyAy9X91LBepo6Aq0Rt6QxBjWRl76txk8I

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.AppRoleAssignments["{appRoleAssignment-id}"].GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users app-role-assignments get --user-id {user-id} --app-role-assignment-id {appRoleAssignment-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



appRoleAssignments, err := graphClient.Me().AppRoleAssignments().ByAppRoleAssignmentId("appRoleAssignment-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AppRoleAssignment result = graphClient.me().appRoleAssignments().byAppRoleAssignmentId("{appRoleAssignment-id}").get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let appRoleAssignment = await client.api('/me/appRoleAssignments/Lo6gEKI-4EyAy9X91LBepo6Aq0Rt6QxBjWRl76txk8I')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->appRoleAssignments()->byAppRoleAssignmentId('appRoleAssignment-id')->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Applications

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserAppRoleAssignment -UserId $userId -AppRoleAssignmentId $appRoleAssignmentId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.me.app_role_assignments.by_app_role_assignment_id('appRoleAssignment-id').get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response. It shows the signed-in user has the default app role for a resource service principal named Postman.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('10a08e2e-3ea2-4ce0-80cb-d5fdd4b05ea6')/appRoleAssignments/$entity",
    "id": "Lo6gEKI-4EyAy9X91LBepo6Aq0Rt6QxBjWRl76txk8I",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "appRoleId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "createdDateTime": "2022-09-08T17:43:57.8423817Z",
    "principalDisplayName": "MOD Administrator",
    "principalId": "10a08e2e-3ea2-4ce0-80cb-d5fdd4b05ea6",
    "principalType": "User",
    "resourceDisplayName": "Postman",
    "resourceId": "2a8f9e7a-af01-413a-9592-c32ec0e5c1a7"
}