Why does $select not work on POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users

Question

We are trying to confirm a succeeded user input (in one go for convienience), thus looking for specific properties (other than the default) and would expect the $select query parameter to work e.g.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=id,mail returning the id and mail properties

To our suprise ALL properties are returned no matter what we put in the select parameter value so currently we are doing like this POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=* just for readability

Is this a "feature" or an issue?

Cheers

Steffen

Answer 1

Hi @Steffen Dyhr-Nielsen ,

Hope you are doing well.

As per the documentation, create user using MS graph API will not support any Odata query parameters.

At a minimum, you must specify the required properties for the user. Based on the valid request payload it will create the new user and return the predefined property values in response irrespective of values mentioned in $select parameter of Request API.

If you want, you can use OData query parameter $Select with Get method type.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Hi @Steffen Dyhr-Nielsen

Are you trying to list the id and mail attributes of all users in the tenant? If yes, then you should use the GET request:

You can also use the code:

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );

var users = await graphClient.Users
	.Request()
	.Select("id,mail")
	.GetAsync();

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