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title: "share.people-lookup@1 · OpenVibe.Services"
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# share.people-lookup@1 · OpenVibe.Services

HTML: [share.people-lookup@1 · OpenVibe.Services](https://openvibe.services/docs/contracts/share.people-lookup)

# SharePeopleLookup `share.people-lookup@1`

Generated at 2026-11-13 06:25:48 UTC from [`openvibe-contracts v0.419.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Contracts/tree/v0.419.0) and [`openvibe-sdk v0.161.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.SDK/tree/v0.161.0).

- Version: 1.0.0
- Owner: network
- Visibility: public
- Status: active
- Compatibility: backward
- Schema: [`https://openvibe.network/contracts/share/people-lookup.v1.json`](/docs/contracts/share.people-lookup.json)

share.people-lookup@1: the answer to GET /api/v1/share/people?name=exact. person is null when nobody holds that exact name, for banned or deleted accounts, and for non-user subjects.

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Description | Constraints |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `person` | one of | yes |  |  |

## Examples

From the contract's own test fixtures: valid ones validate, rejected ones must fail.

 Valid: none

~~~~
{
  "person": null
}
~~~~

Valid: person

~~~~
{
  "person": {
    "subject": {
      "type": "user",
      "id": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPR"
    },
    "username": "maticus",
    "display_name": "Maticus",
    "avatar_url": "https://cdn.openvibe.network/avatars/maticus.png"
  }
}
~~~~

Rejected: unknown-field

~~~~
{
  "person": {
    "subject": {
      "type": "user",
      "id": "usr_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPR"
    },
    "username": "maticus",
    "display_name": "Maticus",
    "avatar_url": null
  },
  "names": [
    "maticus"
  ]
}
~~~~

## Validate

~~~~
const contracts = require('openvibe-contracts');
contracts.validate('share.people-lookup@1', value);   // { valid, errors: [{ path, message }] }
~~~~