Not able to get folders which are inside folder with name containing special Charaters using sharepoint API

Question

from office365.runtime.auth.authentication_context import AuthenticationContext
from office365.sharepoint.client_context import ClientContext

url = "xxxx.com"
site_url = url + "/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx"

def auth_api(user, pas):                                                        
    ctx_auth = AuthenticationContext(url)                                       
    ctx_auth.acquire_token_for_user(user, pas)                                  
    ctx = ClientContext(siteurl, ctx_auth) # make sure you auth to the siteurl. 
    return ctx                                                                  

def folder_check(user, pas, folder_path, folder_to_check):
    try: 
       ctx = auth_api(user, pas)                                                        
       libraryRoot = ctx.web.get_folder_by_server_relative_url(folder_path)           
       ctx.load(libraryRoot)                                                          
       ctx.execute_query()                                                            
       folders = libraryRoot.folders                                                  
       ctx.load(folders)                                                              
       ctx.execute_query() #Breaks here                                                         
       for myfolder in folders:                                                       
           if folder_to_check in myfolder.properties["ServerRelativeUrl"]:                                                               
               return {'status': True,'message':'Folder Found'}                       
           else:                                                                      
               continue                                                               
       return {'status': False,'message':'Folder Not Found'}                          
   except Exception as e:                                                             
       return {'status': False,'message':str(e)}                                      

folder_check('xxxxx', 'xxxx', "user # test", "test")

folder abc#123 contain folder test
but it is not printing test

Answer 1

Hi,

This is the problem with spaces and characters in SharePoint. You will have to replace them with the Ascii Hex codes (https://ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm). In this case you are going to replace the # with %23.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Hi @Vinit Jain ,

In C#, we use ResourcePath API to deal with special charaters, then use method Web.GetFolderByServerRelativePath(ResourcePath) instead of Web.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl(String) to get the folder.

And this method is not available in python : https://github.com/vgrem/Office365-REST-Python-Client/blob/master/office365/sharepoint/webs/web.py

So, i think you may need to use the method get_folder_by_id() to get the folder.

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