How to Fix 'could not find memberId' Errors When Removing Group Members in FusionAuth

[wesley]

I tried using delete_group_members() to remove users from a group, but each request failed with a “could not find memberId” error. I tried passing in both the group ID and user ID, but it didn’t work. I was only able to get it to work manually by passing a members_delete_request directly to the client. Is there a way to get delete_group_members() to work properly, or does it have a bug?

[wesley]

You can work around this by passing the IDs directly in your request. Here’s an example of how to structure the request correctly:

from fusionauth.fusionauth_client import FusionAuthClient

api_key = 'your-fusionauth-api-key'
base_url = 'https://your-fusionauth-instance.com'
group_id = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'
user_ids_to_remove = [
    'yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy',
    'zzzzzzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzzzzzzzzzz'
]

client = FusionAuthClient(api_key, base_url)
member_delete_request = {'members': {group_id: user_ids_to_remove}}
response = client.delete_group_members(member_delete_request)

if response.was_successful():
    print("Successfully removed users from group!")
else:
    print(f"Error: {response.error_response}")

This approach correctly formats the request for the API to process and delete the specified users from the group.