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What I am looking to do is upload a file to a Sharepoint subsite using the Graph API. I have been able to create a upload session and upload to a sharepoint site referencing https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_createuploadsession?view=odsp-graph-online, however, when I try creating a session upload for a subsite on a sharepoint site I get an "itemNotFound" error code.
As an example, the url for creating an upload session for a file called example.txt is shown below
where {hostname},{spsite-id},{spweb-id} is the ID of the sharepoint site (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/sharepoint?view=graph-rest-1.0 for an overview of sharepoint sites in the Graph API) and {item-id} is the driveItem ID for the folder on sharepoint that we want to upload to. Before we use a POST request with the url, we need to include a request body in a json format (as shown in the first link) and below is what that should be at a minimum
{"item": {
"name": "example.txt"
}
}
Doing what I have described above, this works for creating an upload session on a sharepoint site (see the first link for using the upload session url). For a subsite on a sharepoint site, this is what I tried and it did not work. In order to get the ID of the subsite, I used the url below as a GET request
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{hostname},{spsite-id},{spweb-id}/sites
where {hostname},{spsite-id},{spweb-id} is the parent Sharepoint site ID. This url gives the subsites of a Sharepoint site and I was able to obtain the ID of the subsite that I wanted to upload to. When I use this ID (which is in the form {hostname},{spsite-id},{spweb-id}) with the url for creating an upload session, it fails.
My question is what is the correct url to create an upload session on a subsite? The documentation does not specify how to do this other than what I have already shown for a regular Sharepoint site. If someone could please help, it would be appreciated
Thanks
Folders seem to be weird, I get the same error for creating a folder on a subsite (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_post_children?view=odsp-graph-online for reference), however, a Folder did get created on the subsite.
The url to do a POST request is
where {hostname},{spsite-id},{spweb-id} is the Sharepoint site/subsite ID and item-id is the itemDrive ID of the folder for where we want to create the new folder. Similar to creating an upload session, you need to provide a request body specifying information about the folder. Below is an example for creating a folder called "Test" with nothing in it
{"name": "Test",
"folder": {},
"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"
}
Creating a folder on the Sharepoint Site gives back a json object about the new folder, just not the subsite. I would imagine the key to cracking this is the same as the original question
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You can use following api to create session
POST /users/{userId}/drive/items/{itemId}/createUploadSession
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Thank you for your answer. However, I don't think you read my question. Please read through what I have described first.
I am not looking to upload a file to a user's OneDrive, I'm looking to upload to a Sharepoint subsite. As I stated, I have been able to use what I described on a parent Sharepoint site, just not the subsite.
As far as I know, currently there is no such endpoint to upload file to subsite. You can raise a uservoice here.