New API type for group applications

[GAsplund]

Having developed on a new application, CashIT, I saw that the INFO API type would not be enough for this use case. According to the current design, the application must be able to:

• Fetch the name of any group
  Allows the name of a group to be displayed in tables when the current user is not a part of that group
• Fetch the members of any group
  This information is needed so that forms can be pre-filled with the members of a group
• Fetch the name of any member
  This information is needed so that tables can be filled in lists

There are probably more use cases here, but I probably forgot about them.

The reason that this needs to be done on an API-level is that in this case, the division treasurer should be able to make changed on behalf of another group.

I propose a new API type with the following endpoints:

• /group - Get information about a group. The data structure could be as follows:

{
  id: string;
  name: string;
  prettyName: string;
  groupMembers: {
    id: string;
    nick: string;
    firstName: string;
    lastName: string;
  }[];
  superGroup: {
    id: string;
    name: string;
    prettyName: string;
    type: string;
  }
}

• /user - Get information about a given user
  Same structure as /user is today on the INFO API type

[Portals]

Would the name group be a good enough name for the API?

[GAsplund]

Yeah, that seems like a good fit