Looking for advice on how to programmatically list all OAuth clients in an org and verify their scope assignments.
I am calling GET /api/v2/oauth/clients but the response object lacks a detailed scopes array for each client, only providing a scopes count or generic IDs.
GET /api/v2/oauth/clients?pageSize=100
Error: The response payload does not contain the specific scope names required for audit validation.
Is there a separate endpoint to fetch the detailed scope mapping for a specific client ID, or is this data buried in a different resource?
Make sure you fetch the detailed scope definitions separately; the client list endpoint is intentionally lightweight to prevent payload bloat on large orgs. The scopes array in the list response contains only IDs because the actual permission strings reside in the global scope registry. You need to perform a secondary lookup against /api/v2/oauth/scopes to map those IDs to their functional names like admin:read or cons:write.
Here is a Python snippet using the Genesys Cloud SDK to resolve this mapping efficiently:
from genesyscloud import oauth_api
def map_client_scopes(client_id, platform_client):
oauth = oauth_api.OauthApi(platform_client)
# 1. Get the specific client to retrieve scope IDs
client_details, _ = oauth.get_oauth_client(client_id)
scope_ids = client_details.scopes
# 2. Fetch all available scopes to create a lookup map
all_scopes, _ = oauth.get_oauth_scopes()
scope_map = {s.id: s.name for s in all_scopes.scopes}
# 3. Resolve IDs to names
resolved_scopes = [scope_map.get(sid, 'Unknown') for sid in scope_ids]
return resolved_scopes
# Usage:
# scopes = map_client_scopes('your-client-id', platform_client)
Relying on the list endpoint for full metadata is a common architectural trap in Genesys Cloud development. The API design separates reference data from entity data to keep pagination efficient. If you are building a validation script, cache the scope_map locally rather than requesting it per client, as the global scope list rarely changes. This approach avoids rate limits and provides the granular permission audit you are looking for without hitting 400 errors on malformed queries.
The quickest way to solve this is… to treat the client list endpoint as a directory, not a definition store. The suggestion above is technically correct but misses the efficiency gain of batching. The documentation states, “The /api/v2/oauth/scopes endpoint returns the global registry of all defined scopes.” You do not need to call it per client. Fetch the global scope map once, then resolve the client scopeIds locally.
Here is the Python implementation using platformClient:
from PureCloudPlatformClientV2 import PureCloudPlatformClientV2
client = PureCloudPlatformClientV2()
oauth_api = client.oauth_api
# 1. Get all clients
clients_resp = oauth_api.get_oauthclients(page_size=100)
# 2. Get global scope map ONCE
scopes_resp = oauth_api.get_oauthscopes()
scope_map = {s.id: s.name for s in scopes_resp.entities}
# 3. Resolve
for c in clients_resp.entities:
print(f"Client: {c.name}")
for sid in c.scope_ids:
print(f" - {scope_map.get(sid, 'Unknown')}")
See OAuth Scope Resolution for details on the payload structure. This avoids N+1 query issues.