# Plugin Development: List a user’s groups without making a request

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-development-list-a-user-s-groups-without-making-a-request/103710>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-development-list-a-user-s-groups-without-making-a-request/103710 "2018-12-07T14:52:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![kleinfreund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@kleinfreund](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kleinfreund)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-development-list-a-user-s-groups-without-making-a-request/103710/1 "2018-12-07T14:52:37Z")

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As per “[https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-users-custom-groups-problems/37792](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-users-custom-groups-problems/37792)”, the property `Discourse.User.current().groups` isn’t exposed to all pages.

As per “[Discourse docs: Get a single user by username](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Users%2Fpaths%2F~1users~1%7Busername%7D.json%2Fget)”, the response payload includes a `groups` array which would be sufficient.

However, I would prefer to not send a request for this information if I can get it without. Is there a way to list a user’s groups without sending a request?

I need to access a user’s group within my plugins Ember route.

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