API v4 does not return all the groups a user belong to

Summary

It is not possible to get the groups a user belong to with the API

Steps to reproduce

• User Bob creates a Group A
• User Bob creates a subGroup AB
• User Bob creates a sub-subgroup AB1
• User Bob creates a sub-subgroup AB2
• User Bob adds user Alicie to Group A with reporter permission
• User Alice query the API to get all the groups she belong to and just gets Group A:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: ****" -XGET https://gitlab.com/api/v4/groups

Example Project

We are having this error with the meta group https://gitlab.com/Bitergia and I've created and example at:

• https://gitlab.com/groups/Bitergia/testing-subgroups-bug
• https://gitlab.com/groups/Bitergia/testing-subgroups-bug/groupab1
• https://gitlab.com/groups/Bitergia/testing-subgroups-bug/groupab2

The user gitlab2phabricator-bot sees all these groups through the web interface, but can't get them using the API.

What is the current bug behavior?

API request GET /groups does not return all the groups a user belong to

What is the expected correct behavior?

API request GET /groups returns all the groups a user belong to (the ones that are accessible using the web interface)

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

No relevant logs

Output of checks

This bug happens on GitLab.com

Results of GitLab environment info

None

Results of GitLab application Check

None

Possible fixes

None

@victorwu could you verify this is not by design and is a bug?

added Platform in GitLab FOSS label

@mydigitalself @DouweM : Could you take a look? Thanks

added subgroups in GitLab FOSS label

changed milestone to %Next 2-3 months in gitlab-foss

@sanacl This was likely fixed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/2adff699cea2cf1e60180d7eae73dfe5e8a09235#6c84f058ba31c2937e737e7684e115a8e53941b7_26_39, which shipped in GitLab 10.0. Can you please check if you still see the problem?

moved from gitlab-foss#34230 (moved)