I want to fetch my recent folders via the Microsoft Graph REST API.
This API contains the following:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/recent
According to the references the result should look like this:
{
"value": [
{
"id": "1312abc!1231",
"remoteItem":
{
"id": "1991210caf!192",
"name": "March Proposal.docx",
"file": { },
"size": 19121,
"parentReference": {
"driveId": "1991210caf",
"id": "1991210caf!104"
}
}
},
{
"id": "1312def!9943",
"name": "Vacation.jpg",
"file": { },
"size": 37810,
"parentReference": {
"driveId": "1312def",
"id": "1312def!123"
}
}
]
}
If the results was like this I could get the parent folder by using the driveId and id of the parentReference but in my results I only get the driveId. This causes the need to do one extra call to graph to fetch the folder.
This means I need 3 calls to the graph API to fetch a recent folder.
My question is if there is a way to also fetch the id or the parentReference so I only need two calls or if there even is an easier way for fetching recent folders?
Thanks in advance!
Sadly the answer is no. 'Recents' feature is pretty bare. They could extend it and provide more flexibility.
If this is critical for you, you can always create a request at:
https://officespdev.uservoice.com/
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Is there a way to obtain the content of a Word document stored in the cloud through the Microsoft Graph API without having to download the file locally?
The goal is to build an app that analyzes a Word document's inner content and produce some interesting data from it. However after searching through Microsoft's Dev Center, Graph Explorer, and their API's documentation repository, I can't find any API endpoints that can serve me that data.
I can find some endpoints that deal with manipulating Excel's contents, but not one that deals with Word. Does Microsoft Graph not support retrieving a Word document's content?
EDIT: For example, I know I can read the contents of a "message" and even apply a search on it through query parameters, as demonstrated by one of Microsoft's samples. But I can't seem to find how to do this with Word documents.
Well, it's possible to download the content of the document.
See: Download the contents of a DriveItem.
For example:
GET /v1.0/me/drive/root:/some-folder/document.docx:/content
But you'll get the entire docx, with embedded images and all. Don't know if this is what you are looking for.
As an example, see the helix-word2md project that fetches a docx and converts it to markdown.
I'm afraid you can't direly access word content. What you can do is use web URL property of a DriveItem opening a document the associated Word Online or native world if it is installed.
You can use this below to show specific item or all items:
GET /users/{userId}/drive/items/{itemId}
GET me/drive/root/children/
This is the result below:
{
"#microsoft.graph.downloadUrl": "",
"createdDateTime": "2018-08-10T01:43:00Z",
"eTag": "\"{00000000-3E94-4161-9B82-0000000},2\"",
"id": "00000000IOJA4ONFB6MFAZXARX7L7RU4NV",
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2018-08-10T01:43:00Z",
"name": "daily check.docx",
"webUrl": "https://xxxxxxx",
"cTag": "\"c:{00000000-3E94-4161-9B82-37FAFF1A71B5},2\"",
"size": 26330,
"createdBy": {
"user": {
"email": "000000.onmicrosoft.com",
"id": "000000-93dc-41b7-b89b-760c4128455a",
"displayName": "Chris"
}
},
"lastModifiedBy": {
"user": {
"email": "0000#0000.onmicrosoft.com",
"id": "00000000-93dc-41b7-b89b-00000000",
"displayName": "Chris"
}
},
"parentReference": {
"driveId":
"b!000000000gdQMtns72t31yqWMhnFCjmCqO3tR5ypOf17NKl2USqo1bNqhOzrZ",
"driveType": "business",
"id": "00000VN6Y2GOVW7725BZO354PWSELRRZ",
"path": "/drive/root:"
},
"file": {
"mimeType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-
officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
"hashes": {
"quickXorHash": "OSOK7r2hIVSeY1+FjaCnlOxn2p8="
}
},
"fileSystemInfo": {
"createdDateTime": "2018-08-10T01:43:00Z",
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2018-08-10T01:43:00Z"
}
}
I'm trying to use the /4.0/legacyvm3/teams/{team}/events endpoint to create an event. I'm running into some trouble with spaces.
I used the /4.0/legacyvm3/teams/{team}/venues endpoint to get a list of venues. I chose one to include in the spaces section and posted this:
{
"name": "Event via API Test 04",
"category": "athletic event",
"public": true,
"attendee_management": true,
"start_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"end_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"uses_metric": false,
"venue_mapper_version": 0,
"spaces": [
{
"venue_id": 128379,
"name": "Snurrrggggg"
}
]
}
The endpoint returns a 400 code and this error:
{
"code": 400,
"message": "Cannot read property 'toLowerCase' of undefined"
}
I tried including the wizard section, but each time it would return this error:
{
"message": "Access Denied to this feature"
}
After some experimentation, this body succeeded:
{
"name": "Event via API Test 03",
"category": "athletic event",
"public": true,
"attendee_management": true,
"start_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"end_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"uses_metric": false,
"venue_mapper_version": 0,
"spaces": [
{
"name": "Fake News Room"
}
]
}
But the application itself would not display the diagram, and the newly created room did not show up in my list of venues. Perhaps it did not assign permissions to it?
In any case, I don't actually want to create a new venue/space. I want to pass in an existing venue/space. How do I do that?
The short answer is to create a working diagram in 4.0 you will need to POST some data to the /4.0/diagrams endpoint.
The room you create doesn't map to the same concept as venues. When you create an event as you did, it creates a new space entity. The spaces endpoints can return information on those.
I'm currently trying to work with the Dropbox list_file_members API endpoint, as it appears to me to be the only place to find out who owns a file (
see follow example result taken from the documentation page )
{
"users": [
{
"access_type": {
".tag": "owner"
},
"user": {
"account_id": "dbid:AAH4f99T0taONIb-OurWxbNQ6ywGRopQngc",
"same_team": true,
"team_member_id": "dbmid:abcd1234"
},
"permissions": [],
"is_inherited": false
}
],
"groups":[...]
...
}
However, when I call the API on a single file I get the follow
{
"users": [],
"groups": [
{
"access_type": {
".tag": "editor"
},
"permissions": [],
"is_inherited": true,
"group": {
"group_name": "Everyone at TEAM_NAME_HERE",
"group_id": "g:GROUP_ID_HERE",
"member_count": 6,
"group_management_type": {
".tag": "company_managed"
},
"group_type": {
".tag": "team"
},
"is_owner": false,
"same_team": true
}
}
],
"invitees": []
}
This result contains no owner information, so I'm assuming this is because everyone has the same access levels ??
The problem worsens when I try to call files in batches using the sharing_list_file_members/batch endpoint, I get the following result
[
{
"file": "id:THIS_IS_MY_FILE_ID",
"result": {
".tag": "result",
"members": {
"users": [],
"groups": [],
"invitees": []
},
"member_count": 0
}
}
]
Obviously this is even less helpful, this is the same when I access the API via my own PHP, as well as the API explorer, could anyone tell me where I'm going wrong and why I'm getting no results from users and even groups when done in batches ?
The /2/sharing/list_file_members endpoint is documented as:
Use to obtain the members who have been invited to a file, both inherited and uninherited members.
The /2/sharing/list_file_members/batch endpoint is documented as:
Get members of multiple files at once. The arguments to this route are more limited, and the limit on query result size per file is more strict. To customize the results more, use the individual file endpoint.
Inherited users are not included in the result, and permissions are not returned for this endpoint.
It sounds like the file for your example is in a team folder, and so the group listed for your non-batch example is the team group, i.e., an inherited group. The documentation indicates that this group isn't expected when using the batch endpoint.
I have been working on an API and pagination is required. Only 25 elements will be returned in each request. I was looking around for standards and I seem to see 2 different things going on.
The Link Header
Link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5988
Example:
Link: <https://api.github.com/user/repos?page=3&per_page=100>; rel="next",
<https://api.github.com/user/repos?page=50&per_page=100>; rel="last"
In the JSON response
Link: API pagination best practices
Example:
"paging": {
"previous": "http://api.example.com/foo?since=TIMESTAMP"
"next": "http://api.example.com/foo?since=TIMESTAMP2"
}
Question:
Should I do both? and that being said; is the key "paging" the correct key? or "links" or "pagination"
I would say it depends on the structure of data you return (and may return in the future).
If you never have nested objects that need their own links, then using the Link header is (mildly) preferable, because it's more correct. The issue with nested objects is that you can't nest Link headers.
Consider the following collection entity:
{
"links": {
"collection": "/cards?offset=0&limit=25"
},
"data": [
{
"cardName": "Island of Wak-Wak",
"type": "Land",
"links": {
"set": "/cards?set=Arabian Knights"
}
},
{
"cardName": "Mana Drain",
"type": "Interrupt",
"links": {
"set": "/cards?set=Legends"
}
}
]
}
There's no good way to include links for the cards in the headers.
I am working with XBMC. I have installed XBMC in my system(Windows 7, 32 bit). Xbmc is working fine in my system. I have developed an application in order to control the Xbmc remotely from Ipad. In order to retrieve the music files or video files from Xbmc, I am unable to. By searching the forums of xbmc, I found that we can write an sql query to get them out. But, the thing is I am unable to make out where the database is located in my system. Someone help me out where I can find it.
Regards,
Sushma.
The database itself
By default the location of the database is that described on the wiki page XBMC databases
but the actual location can be changed by the user, or a different database technology can be used entirely.
The settings that would affect this are located in advancedsettings.xml.
But in general it is advised by the XBMC developers to never access the database directly.
JSONRPC
In order to help with interacting with the database XBMC has supported the JSONRPC queries, the one downside of these is that XBMC needs to be running at the time to respond to these queries. The major advantage is that it XBMC will find the database for you and expose access to it with a common interface.
JSONRPC support was first added to XBMC in "Darhma" (v10), became really useful in "Eden" (v11) and will support almost everything possible in "Frodo" (v12). Information about the use of JSONRPC can be found in the wiki.
An example
In this example I'm assuming that you are targeting "Eden", the current stable release of XBMC. Also I have formatted the following with new lines, these are not required and are not present in the response from XBMC.
Request
If you were to use JSONRPC the request you would need to send would look something like:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies",
"params": {
"properties": [
"title",
"year",
"file"
],
"limits": {
"start": 0,
"end": 2
}
},
"id": 1
}
Note: If you wanted different information about each movie you could use other properties listed here.
*Note: You probably want to omit the "limits" part to get all movies.*
Responce
The response to this would be something like:
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": {
"limits": {
"end": 2,
"start": 0,
"total": 47
},
"movies": [
{
"label": "Label for movie",
"movieid": 1,
"title": "Title of movie",
"year": 2012
},
{
"label": "Label for another movie",
"movieid": 2,
"title": "Title of another movie",
"year": 2010
},
{
"label": "Label for a third movie",
"movieid": 3,
"title": "Title of a third movie",
"year": 2012
}
]
}
}
What to do now?
You have a choice at this point, you can either:
Add "file" to the list of properties, this will return the "file" property, the location of the video file.
Use JSONRPC to tell xbmc to play a movie.
Using this method is best when you don't want to play the file locally (on the iPad) but instead on XBMC.
Playing a movie on XBMC via JSONRPC
This is quite simple, use the "movieid" you received earlier in the following request:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "Player.Open",
"params": {
"item": {
"movieid": 2
}
},
"id": 1
}
Lastly I would note that there are equivalent commands for TV episodes as shown for movies.