How to verify existence of resources and components in Jfrog artifactory - artifactory

Question

We are trying to automate the repos, group and permission creation in Jfrog as part of the azuredevops pipeline. So here I decided to use JfrogCLI and API calls as the azuredevops tasks. But facing some difficulties in Jfrog cli or API calls related as the idempotent behavior is not enabled for most of the API calls operations and CLI commands.
Scenario:- For Application app-A1,
2 repos(local-A1 and virtual-A1) ,
2 groups(appA1-developers, appA1-contributors)
1 permission target (appA1-permission) where we will include the created 2 repos and groups with the permissions
Below is what I tried to achieve so far.
For creating the groups
jf rt group-create appA1-developers --url https://myrepo/artifactory --user jfuser --password jfpass
jf rt group-create appA1-contributors --url https://myrepo/artifactory --user jfuser --password jfpass
Create Repos using the command as below
Repo creation and Update template
jfrog rt rc local-repo-template
{
"description": "$variable",
"excludesPattern":"$variable",
"includesPattern":"$variable",
"key":"$variable",
"notes":"$variable",
"packageType":"$variable",
"rclass":"$variable"
}
Repo Update Command
jfrog rt ru local-repo-template
{
"description": "$variable",
"excludesPattern":"$variable",
"includesPattern":"$variable",
"key":"$variable",
"notes":"$variable",
"packageType":"$variable",
"rclass":"$variable"
}
For creating permission
curl -u 'jfuser' -X PUT "https://myrepo/artifactory/api/v2/security/permissions/java-developers" -H "Content-type: application/json" -T permision.json
{
"name": "appA1-developers",
"repo": {
"include-patterns": ["**"],
"exclude-patterns": [""],
"repositories": ["appA1-local"],
"actions": {
"groups" : {
"appA1-developers" : ["manage","read","annotate"]
}
}
},
"build": {
"include-patterns": ["testmaven/**"],
"exclude-patterns": [""],
"repositories": ["artifactory-build-info"],
"actions": {
"groups" : {
"appA1-developers" : ["manage","read","write","annotate","delete"]
}
}
}
}
But when I trying in Azuredevops all the above tasks, Not able to identify and condition if any of the resources above are already existing.
Looking for a way to Identify first,
If the specified groupname is already existing or not, if existing skip group creation, else create the groups
check if the repos already existing,
if not existing create as per the template
But if it exists and all the properties are same- Skip it
But if it exists and there are property changes- use the update command
Similarly, the permission target also need to be updated only if there are changes , But existing properties or settings shouldnt be altered.