Profiles - Get

Service:

Profile

API Version:

5.1

Gets a user profile.

GET https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/_apis/profile/profiles/{id}?api-version=5.1

With optional parameters:

GET https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/_apis/profile/profiles/{id}?details={details}&withAttributes={withAttributes}&partition={partition}&coreAttributes={coreAttributes}&forceRefresh={forceRefresh}&api-version=5.1

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
id	path	True	string	The ID of the target user profile within the same organization, or 'me' to get the profile of the current authenticated user.
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '5.1' to use this version of the api.
coreAttributes	query		string	A comma-delimited list of core profile attributes to return. Valid values are Email, Avatar, DisplayName, and ContactWithOffers.
details	query		boolean	Return public profile information such as display name, email address, country, etc. If false, the withAttributes parameter is ignored.
forceRefresh	query		boolean	Not used in this version of the API.
partition	query		string	The partition (named group) of attributes to return.
withAttributes	query		boolean	If true, gets the attributes (named key-value pairs of arbitrary data) associated with the profile. The partition parameter must also have a value.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	Profile	successful operation

Security

oauth2

Type: oauth2
Flow: accessCode
Authorization URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize&response_type=Assertion
Token URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/token?client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer

Scopes

Name	Description
vso.profile	Grants the ability to read your profile, accounts, collections, projects, teams, and other top-level organizational artifacts.

Examples

Sample Request

HTTP

GET https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/_apis/profile/profiles/{id}?api-version=5.1

Sample Response

Status code:

200

{
  "displayName": "Normal Paulk",
  "publicAlias": "d6245f20-2af8-44f4-9451-8107cb2767db",
  "emailAddress": "fabrikamfiber16@hotmail.com",
  "coreRevision": 1647,
  "timeStamp": "2014-05-12T22:23:07.727+00:00",
  "id": "d6245f20-2af8-44f4-9451-8107cb2767db",
  "revision": 1647
}

Definitions

Name	Description
AttributeDescriptor	Identifies an attribute with a name and a container.
AttributesContainer	Stores a set of named profile attributes.
CoreProfileAttribute	A profile attribute which always has a value for each profile.
Profile	A user profile.
ProfileAttribute	A named object associated with a profile.
ProfileState	The current state of the profile.

AttributeDescriptor

Identifies an attribute with a name and a container.

Name	Type	Description
attributeName	string	The name of the attribute.
containerName	string	The container the attribute resides in.

AttributesContainer

Stores a set of named profile attributes.

Name	Type	Description
attributes	<string,  ProfileAttribute>	The attributes stored by the container.
containerName	string	The name of the container.
revision	integer	The maximum revision number of any attribute within the container.

CoreProfileAttribute

A profile attribute which always has a value for each profile.

Name	Type	Description
descriptor	AttributeDescriptor	The descriptor of the attribute.
revision	integer	The revision number of the attribute.
timeStamp	string	The time the attribute was last changed.
value	string	The value of the attribute.

Profile

A user profile.

Name	Type	Description
applicationContainer	AttributesContainer	The attributes of this profile.
coreAttributes	<string,  CoreProfileAttribute>	The core attributes of this profile.
coreRevision	integer	The maximum revision number of any attribute.
id	string	The unique identifier of the profile.
profileState	ProfileState	The current state of the profile.
revision	integer	The maximum revision number of any attribute.
timeStamp	string	The time at which this profile was last changed.

ProfileAttribute

A named object associated with a profile.

Name	Type	Description
descriptor	AttributeDescriptor	The descriptor of the attribute.
revision	integer	The revision number of the attribute.
timeStamp	string	The time the attribute was last changed.
value	string	The value of the attribute.

ProfileState

The current state of the profile.

Name	Type	Description
custom	string	The profile is in use.
customReadOnly	string	The profile is in use, but can only be read.
readOnly	string	The profile may only be read.