microsoft.graph.search Filter and Orderby

Question

I have looked here https://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/api-reference/v1.0/api/item_search and at the odata query parameters listed here http://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/overview/query_parameters.

Can anyone offer some guidance on how to filter out folders when searching your OneDrive For Business files using the graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/microsoft.graph.search endpoint and how to get orderby to work. It seems pretty simple, but I can't seem to find the syntax.

Thanks...

Answer 1

The Microsoft Graph REST doesn't support to filter the folders or files directly. You can use OneDrive REST api as a workaround. Here is an example for your reference:

GET: drive/root/children?filter=folder+ne+null

And below the URL root for the service: More detail about OneDrive REST, please refer to here. And if you want the Microsoft Graph also support this feature, you can submit the feedback from here.

Answer 2

Now Microsoft Graph API supports, filtering and ordering the items in onedrive. Use the below Graph endpoint to retrieve the folders from root of the onedrive,

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children?$filter=folder ne null

To order the folders in descending order, use the Graph API in below format,

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children?$filter=folder ne null&orderby=name desc

Answer 3

OneDrive API (and Graph API on drives) do not support filtering or ordering results from the /search API. I'll add this to our list of requested features to consider for a future update. In the mean time, you would need to do sorting / filtering of results data client side.