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# Lookup Entity (Streaming)

The difference between this endpoint from direct Lookup Entity is response of this entity gives the IDs' as stream. This could be useful if you have large data set that getting all of the authorized data can take long with direct lookup entity endpoint.


## OpenAPI

````yaml post /v1/tenants/{tenant_id}/permissions/lookup-entity-stream
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Permify API
  description: >-
    Permify is an open source authorization service for creating fine-grained
    and scalable authorization systems.
  version: v1.6.10
  contact:
    name: API Support
    url: https://github.com/Permify/permify/issues
    email: hello@permify.co
  license:
    name: AGPL-3.0 license
    url: https://github.com/Permify/permify/blob/master/LICENSE
servers: []
security: []
tags:
  - name: Permission
  - name: Watch
  - name: Schema
  - name: Data
  - name: Bundle
  - name: Tenancy
paths:
  /v1/tenants/{tenant_id}/permissions/lookup-entity-stream:
    post:
      tags:
        - Permission
      summary: lookup entity stream
      operationId: permissions.lookupEntityStream
      parameters:
        - name: tenant_id
          description: >-
            Identifier of the tenant, if you are not using multi-tenancy (have
            only one tenant) use pre-inserted tenant <code>t1</code> for this
            field. Required, and must match the pattern \“[a-zA-Z0-9-,]+\“, max
            64 bytes.
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/LookupEntityStreamBody'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A successful response.(streaming responses)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  result:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/PermissionLookupEntityStreamResponse'
                  error:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Status'
                title: Stream result of PermissionLookupEntityStreamResponse
        default:
          description: An unexpected error response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Status'
      x-codeSamples:
        - label: go
          lang: go
          source: >-
            str, err :=
            client.Permission.LookupEntityStream(context.Background(),
            &v1.PermissionLookupEntityRequest{
                Metadata: &v1.PermissionLookupEntityRequestMetadata{
                    SnapToken: "",
                    SchemaVersion: "",
                    Depth: 50,
                },
                EntityType: "document",
                Permission: "view",
                Subject: &v1.Subject{
                    Type: "user",
                    Id: "1",
                },
                PageSize: 20,
                ContinuousToken: "",
            })


            // handle stream response

            for {
                res, err := str.Recv()

                if err == io.EOF {
                    break
                }

                // res.EntityId
            }
        - label: node
          lang: javascript
          source: >-
            const permify = require("@permify/permify-node");

            const {PermissionLookupEntityStreamResponse} =
            require("@permify/permify-node/dist/src/grpc/generated/base/v1/service");


            function main() {
                const client = new permify.grpc.newClient({
                    endpoint: "localhost:3478",
                });

                let res = client.permission.lookupEntityStream({
                    metadata: {
                        snapToken: "",
                        schemaVersion: "",
                        depth: 20
                    },
                    entityType: "document",
                    permission: "view",
                    subject: {
                        type: "user",
                        id: "1"
                    },
                    page_size: 20,
                    continuous_token: ""
                });

                handle(res);
            }


            async function handle(res:
            AsyncIterable<PermissionLookupEntityStreamResponse>) {
                for await (const response of res) {
                    // response.entityId
                }
            }
components:
  schemas:
    LookupEntityStreamBody:
      type: object
      properties:
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PermissionLookupEntityRequestMetadata'
        entity_type:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Type of the entity to lookup, required, must start with a letter and
            can include alphanumeric and underscore, max 64 bytes.
        permission:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Name of the permission to check, required, must start with a letter
            and can include alphanumeric and underscore, max 64 bytes.
        subject:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Subject'
        context:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Context'
        scope:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/StringArrayValue'
          description: >-
            Scope: A map that associates entity types with lists of identifiers.
            Each entry

            helps filter requests by specifying which entities are relevant to
            the operation.
        page_size:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: |-
            page_size is the number of entities to be returned in the response.
            The value should be between 1 and 100.
        continuous_token:
          type: string
          description: |-
            continuous_token is an optional parameter used for pagination.
            It should be the value received in the previous response.
      description: >-
        PermissionLookupEntityRequest is the request message for the
        LookupEntity method in the Permission service.
    PermissionLookupEntityStreamResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        entity_id:
          type: string
          description: Identifier for an entity that matches the lookup.
        continuous_token:
          type: string
          description: >-
            continuous_token is a string that can be used to paginate and
            retrieve the next set of results.
      description: >-
        PermissionLookupEntityStreamResponse is the response message for the
        LookupEntityStream method in the Permission service.
    Status:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        message:
          type: string
        details:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Any'
    PermissionLookupEntityRequestMetadata:
      type: object
      properties:
        schema_version:
          type: string
          description: Version of the schema.
        snap_token:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The snap token to avoid stale cache, see more details on [Snap
            Tokens](../../operations/snap-tokens).
        depth:
          type: integer
          format: int32
          description: Query limit when if recursive database queries got in loop.
      description: >-
        PermissionLookupEntityRequestMetadata metadata for the
        PermissionLookupEntityRequest.
    Subject:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
        id:
          type: string
        relation:
          type: string
      description: >-
        Subject represents an entity subject with a type, an identifier, and a
        relation.
    Context:
      type: object
      properties:
        tuples:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tuple'
          description: A repeated field of tuples involved in the operation.
        attributes:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Attribute'
          description: A repeated field of attributes associated with the operation.
        data:
          type: object
          description: Additional data associated with the context.
      description: |-
        Context encapsulates the information related to a single operation,
        including the tuples involved and the associated attributes.
    StringArrayValue:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: The array of strings.
      description: Wrapper for an array of strings.
    Any:
      type: object
      properties:
        '@type':
          type: string
          description: >-
            A URL/resource name that uniquely identifies the type of the
            serialized

            protocol buffer message. This string must contain at least

            one "/" character. The last segment of the URL's path must represent

            the fully qualified name of the type (as in

            `path/google.protobuf.Duration`). The name should be in a canonical
            form

            (e.g., leading "." is not accepted).


            In practice, teams usually precompile into the binary all types that
            they

            expect it to use in the context of Any. However, for URLs which use
            the

            scheme `http`, `https`, or no scheme, one can optionally set up a
            type

            server that maps type URLs to message definitions as follows:


            * If no scheme is provided, `https` is assumed.

            * An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a [google.protobuf.Type][]
              value in binary format, or produce an error.
            * Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the
              URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any
              lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved
              on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage
              breaking changes.)

            Note: this functionality is not currently available in the official

            protobuf release, and it is not used for type URLs beginning with

            type.googleapis.com. As of May 2023, there are no widely used type
            server

            implementations and no plans to implement one.


            Schemes other than `http`, `https` (or the empty scheme) might be

            used with implementation specific semantics.
      additionalProperties: {}
      description: >-
        `Any` contains an arbitrary serialized protocol buffer message along
        with a

        URL that describes the type of the serialized message.


        Protobuf library provides support to pack/unpack Any values in the form

        of utility functions or additional generated methods of the Any type.


        Example 1: Pack and unpack a message in C++.

            Foo foo = ...;
            Any any;
            any.PackFrom(foo);
            ...
            if (any.UnpackTo(&foo)) {
              ...
            }

        Example 2: Pack and unpack a message in Java.

            Foo foo = ...;
            Any any = Any.pack(foo);
            ...
            if (any.is(Foo.class)) {
              foo = any.unpack(Foo.class);
            }
            // or ...
            if (any.isSameTypeAs(Foo.getDefaultInstance())) {
              foo = any.unpack(Foo.getDefaultInstance());
            }

         Example 3: Pack and unpack a message in Python.

            foo = Foo(...)
            any = Any()
            any.Pack(foo)
            ...
            if any.Is(Foo.DESCRIPTOR):
              any.Unpack(foo)
              ...

         Example 4: Pack and unpack a message in Go

             foo := &pb.Foo{...}
             any, err := anypb.New(foo)
             if err != nil {
               ...
             }
             ...
             foo := &pb.Foo{}
             if err := any.UnmarshalTo(foo); err != nil {
               ...
             }

        The pack methods provided by protobuf library will by default use

        'type.googleapis.com/full.type.name' as the type URL and the unpack

        methods only use the fully qualified type name after the last '/'

        in the type URL, for example "foo.bar.com/x/y.z" will yield type

        name "y.z".


        JSON

        ====

        The JSON representation of an `Any` value uses the regular

        representation of the deserialized, embedded message, with an

        additional field `@type` which contains the type URL. Example:

            package google.profile;
            message Person {
              string first_name = 1;
              string last_name = 2;
            }

            {
              "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.profile.Person",
              "firstName": <string>,
              "lastName": <string>
            }

        If the embedded message type is well-known and has a custom JSON

        representation, that representation will be embedded adding a field

        `value` which holds the custom JSON in addition to the `@type`

        field. Example (for message [google.protobuf.Duration][]):

            {
              "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Duration",
              "value": "1.212s"
            }
    Tuple:
      type: object
      properties:
        entity:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Entity'
        relation:
          type: string
        subject:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Subject'
      description: Tuple is a structure that includes an entity, a relation, and a subject.
    Attribute:
      type: object
      properties:
        entity:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Entity'
        attribute:
          type: string
          title: Name of the attribute
        value:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Any'
      description: >-
        Attribute represents an attribute of an entity with a specific type and
        value.
    Entity:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
        id:
          type: string
      description: Entity represents an entity with a type and an identifier.

````