feat: Allow disabling fetching user photos

Signed-off-by: Gustaf Räntilä <g.rantila@gmail.com>

.changeset/good-cats-tap.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-msgraph': patch
+---
+
+Retry msgraph API calls, due to frequent ETIMEDOUT errors. Also allow disabling fetching user photos.

plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/api-report.md

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ export class MicrosoftGraphClient {
   requestRaw(
     url: string,
     headers?: Record<string, string>,
+    retryCount?: number,
   ): Promise<Response_2>;
 }
 
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@ export type MicrosoftGraphProviderConfig = {
   groupSearch?: string;
   groupSelect?: string[];
   queryMode?: 'basic' | 'advanced';
+  loadUserPhotos?: boolean;
   schedule?: TaskScheduleDefinition;
 };
 
@@ -244,6 +246,7 @@ export function readMicrosoftGraphOrg(
     userExpand?: string;
     userFilter?: string;
     userSelect?: string[];
+    loadUserPhotos?: boolean;
     userGroupMemberSearch?: string;
     userGroupMemberFilter?: string;
     groupExpand?: string;

plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/config.d.ts

@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ export interface Config {
                * E.g. "accountEnabled eq true and userType eq 'member'"
                */
               filter?: string;
+              /**
+               * Set to false to not load user photos.
+               * This can be useful for huge organizations.
+               */
+              loadPhotos?: boolean;
             };
 
             group?: {

plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/config.ts

@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ export type MicrosoftGraphProviderConfig = {
    */
   queryMode?: 'basic' | 'advanced';
 
+  /**
+   * Set to false to not load user photos.
+   * This can be useful for huge organizations.
+   */
+  loadUserPhotos?: boolean;
+
   /**
    * Schedule configuration for refresh tasks.
    */
@@ -280,6 +286,7 @@ export function readProviderConfig(
   const userExpand = config.getOptionalString('user.expand');
   const userFilter = config.getOptionalString('user.filter');
   const userSelect = config.getOptionalStringArray('user.select');
+  const loadUserPhotos = config.getOptionalBoolean('user.loadPhotos');
 
   const groupExpand = config.getOptionalString('group.expand');
   const groupFilter = config.getOptionalString('group.filter');
@@ -335,6 +342,7 @@ export function readProviderConfig(
     userExpand,
     userFilter,
     userSelect,
+    loadUserPhotos,
     groupExpand,
     groupFilter,
     groupSearch,

plugins/catalog-backend-module-msgraph/src/microsoftGraph/read.ts

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphUsers(
     userExpand?: string;
     userFilter?: string;
     userSelect?: string[];
+    loadUserPhotos?: boolean;
     transformer?: UserTransformer;
     logger: Logger;
   },
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphUsers(
       client,
       users,
       options.logger,
+      options.loadUserPhotos,
       options.transformer,
     ),
   };
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphUsersInGroups(
     userExpand?: string;
     userFilter?: string;
     userSelect?: string[];
+    loadUserPhotos?: boolean;
     userGroupMemberSearch?: string;
     userGroupMemberFilter?: string;
     groupExpand?: string;
@@ -145,6 +148,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphUsersInGroups(
       client,
       userGroupMembers.values(),
       options.logger,
+      options.loadUserPhotos,
       options.transformer,
     ),
   };
@@ -366,6 +370,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphOrg(
     userExpand?: string;
     userFilter?: string;
     userSelect?: string[];
+    loadUserPhotos?: boolean;
     userGroupMemberSearch?: string;
     userGroupMemberFilter?: string;
     groupExpand?: string;
@@ -391,6 +396,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphOrg(
         userSelect: options.userSelect,
         userGroupMemberFilter: options.userGroupMemberFilter,
         userGroupMemberSearch: options.userGroupMemberSearch,
+        loadUserPhotos: options.loadUserPhotos,
         transformer: options.userTransformer,
         logger: options.logger,
       },
@@ -402,6 +408,7 @@ export async function readMicrosoftGraphOrg(
       userExpand: options.userExpand,
       userFilter: options.userFilter,
       userSelect: options.userSelect,
+      loadUserPhotos: options.loadUserPhotos,
       transformer: options.userTransformer,
       logger: options.logger,
     });
@@ -429,6 +436,7 @@ async function transformUsers(
   client: MicrosoftGraphClient,
   users: Iterable<MicrosoftGraph.User> | AsyncIterable<MicrosoftGraph.User>,
   logger: Logger,
+  loadUserPhotos = true,
   transformer?: UserTransformer,
 ) {
   const limiter = limiterFactory(10);
@@ -443,12 +451,14 @@ async function transformUsers(
       limiter(async () => {
         let userPhoto;
         try {
-          userPhoto = await client.getUserPhotoWithSizeLimit(
-            user.id!,
-            // We are limiting the photo size, as users with full resolution photos
-            // can make the Backstage API slow
-            120,
-          );
+          if (loadUserPhotos) {
+            userPhoto = await client.getUserPhotoWithSizeLimit(
+              user.id!,
+              // We are limiting the photo size, as users with full resolution photos
+              // can make the Backstage API slow
+              120,
+            );
+          }
         } catch (e) {
           logger.warn(`Unable to load user photo for`, {
             user: user.id,