Latest REST in SharePoint for Sites from Microsoft Graph

 

REST programming in SharePoint is very simple. Latest REST way of programming has been shared by Microsoft for SharePoint through Graph API.Microsoft Graph APIs are a rich source of APIs for accessing various resources of Office365 like SharePoint, Users, Onedrive. We will focus on SharePoint here.

Why use Graph API in SharePoint?

• Letting developers develop from other platforms like iOS and Android
• Like AI coding. Intelligent access from different sources
• RESTful. Latest REST.
• Any programming language

Precautions:

Use in production is not supported due to drastic changes. Sometimes, the results were not working in v1 and I had to change to beta version.

However, I started seeing real SharePoint projects using Graph API while freelancing and predicting that this will be a good and easy way to program in future soon by all.

We will look at how to construct a REST Url for Graph for SharePoint site.

https://graph.microsoft.com/{version}/{Resource}/{ODATA}

• https://graph.Microsoft.com
• /version
  • v1
  • beta
• Resource
  • Site
  • List
• ODATA
  • Select
  • Filter
  • expand

SharePoint Site Queries

Login to Graph Explorer from the link https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer 

Type the query and click Run Query.

Below are some sample site Queries

• Search for sites
  • https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites?search=*
• Get Site ID. The Site ID contains hostname,SiteCollection ID and the Web ID
  • xxx.sharepoint.com,bd041326-835c-4013-ae95-b57b4fcd0484,f6d916a3-27e1-449f-addf-82e750661823
• Read Site By ID
  • https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/xxx.sharepoint.com,bd041326-835c-4013-ae95-b57b4fcd0484,f6d916a3-27e1-449f-addf-82e750661823
• Read Site By Path
  • https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/xxx.sharepoint.com:/sites/dev
• Read Site Pages
  • https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/xxx.sharepoint.com,bd041326-835c-4013-ae95-b57b4fcd0484,f6d916a3-27e1-449f-addf-82e750661823/pages

Comparison with SharePoint Rest Url

While working on old SharePoint REST, you would begin the SharePoint rest url with the site link.

Example : https://xxx.sharepoint.com/_api/web/title

Graph	SharePoint
Read Sites Only	Create Sites also
Root Url : https://graph.microsoft.com/beta	Root Url : https://xxx.sharepoint.com/_api/web/title
Select Items ?select=Title	Select Items ?select=Title
Expanding ?expand=Author	Expanding ?expand=Author

Summary

You learnt how to construct SharePoint Sites URL in Microsoft Graph:

• Read Sites by ID
• Read Sites by Path
• Read the Pages in a Site