[Building Sakai] Accessing site membership details via Entity Broker

[Daniel Robinson]

Hi Sakai Developers,

We're currently in the process of rewriting the Roster tool using  
JavaScript and TrimPath.

In order to get site membership details (user display name, user email  
etc.), we've used the following entity broker method:

/direct/membership/site.json?siteId=<siteId>

However, this method generates a security exception when the current  
user doesn't have the necessary permissions. Other EB methods, such as  
this method of retrieving by group, also generate the same security  
exception:

/direct/membership/group/<groupdId>.json

The current Roster tool uses the sections API  
(org.sakaiproject.section.api) to retrieve the site membership details  
it requires (which are blocked by EB), but the sections API doesn't  
appear to have an entity provider.

Does anyone know a way around this or an alternative method of  
accessing site membership details via EB?

Best wishes,

Daniel