Kong Community Edition (KongCE) - get Consumers ACLs using REST API

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: February 12 2022
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The curl GET command can be used to list a Consumers ACLs.
On the Kong server
If Kong is running on docker, refer to Kong - Docker container command line for the steps on how to issue commands in the Kong Docker container. Assuming you are using the default kong.conf file, the Kong Admin API will listen on port 8001.
If issuing this command on the Kong server, this command will display a Consumer ACLs.
curl -X GET "http://localhost:8001/consumers/consumer_name_or_id/acls"
From a remote server
If issuing this command from a remote server, this command will display a Consumer ACLs.
curl -X GET "http://hostname:8000/admin-api/consumers/consumer_name_or_id/acls"
Validation
If there are no ACLs associated with the Consumer, something like this will be displayed.
{
"message":"Not Found"
}
If there are ACLs associated with the Consumer, something like this will be displayed.
{
"created_at":1585020896,
"consumer":{
"id":"6b3f8801-a8a2-4e48-ab54-53bdb285c334"
},
"id":"583138ff-17b7-4c28-93b6-7f6407dcc10a",
"group":"example-group",
"tags":null
}
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