ToDo task body is text and missing HTML formatting

Question

When I use the Graph Explorer
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer

to query a task that I created in Microsoft To Do, the body contentType is always text and the HTML formatting (i.e. line breaks) are missing.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/todotask?view=graph-rest-1.0

For example, I created a task in Microsoft To Do and put two lines in the body content:

line one  
  
line two  

And I clearly separated them by two line breaks in the Microsoft To Do body edit window. When I query the task using Graph Explorer, the JSON response looks like this:

"body": {
"content": "line oneline two",
"contentType": "text"
}

Shouldn't the contentType be "html" and shouldn't there be my line breaks between "line one" and "line two" instead of the no separation in the JSON response?

Answer 1

Hi @Kevin Weslowski ,

To get response in HTML format use the Prefer: outlook.body-content-type="html" Request headers.
Example usage of API:

GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/todo/lists/{todoTaskListId}/tasks  
Prefer : outlook.body-content-type="html"  

My test results:

Graph API request:

Response in HTML:

Hope this helps.
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