[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-get-role-mapping]]
=== Get role mappings API
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<titleabbrev>Get role mappings</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves role mappings.

==== Request

`GET /_security/role_mapping` +

`GET /_security/role_mapping/<name>` 

==== Description

Role mappings define which roles are assigned to each user. For more information, 
see {stack-ov}/mapping-roles.html[Mapping users and groups to roles]. 

==== Path Parameters

`name`::
 (string) The distinct name that identifies the role mapping. The name is
  used solely as an identifier to facilitate interaction via the API; it does
  not affect the behavior of the mapping in any way. You can specify multiple 
  mapping names as a comma-separated list. If you do not specify this
  parameter, the API returns information about all role mappings. 

//==== Request Body

==== Results

A successful call retrieves an object, where the keys are the
names of the request mappings, and the values are the JSON representation of 
those mappings. For more information, see 
<<role-mapping-resources>>.

If there is no mapping with the requested name, the
response will have status code `404`.


==== Authorization

To use this API, you must have at least the `manage_security` cluster privilege.


==== Examples

The following example retrieves information about the `mapping1` role mapping:

[source,js]
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GET /_security/role_mapping/mapping1
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:role_mapping]


[source,js]
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{
  "mapping1": {
    "enabled": true,
    "roles": [
      "user"
    ],
    "rules": {
      "field": {
        "username": "*"
      }
    },
    "metadata": {}
  }
}
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