Upload secure pdf to SharePoint folder using GraphAPI

Question

We have a pdf file that fails to upload to SharePoint via GraphAPI. No "id" is present/created in the json response causing it to not upload. I think it is because the pdf is secure and locked down. Here is a screenshot of the security on it. Is this what is causing the issue?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @JC90 ,
I'm glad to hear you solve the problem ,if you have any issue about SharePoint, you are welcome to raise a ticket in this forum.

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[Upload secure pdf to SharePoint folder using GraphAPI]

Issue Symptom:
We have a pdf file that fails to upload to SharePoint via GraphAPI. No "id" is present/created in the json response causing it to not upload. I think it is because the pdf is secure and locked down.

Current status:
There is some code that was limiting the size of the file to 4mb. We have increased it and it is working now.

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Answer 2

Hi @JC90 ,

I tried to replicate the same in my test environment, and I was able to upload password protected PDFs and access the uploaded files successfully using small file upload and large file upload API's.

• Can you share the endpoint used and any possible screenshot of the response
• Are you able to successfully upload the same file directly to SPO library

Reference documents:
driveitem-upload-content
driveitem-createuploadsession

Hope this helps.

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Answer 3

Hi @JC90 ,

According to my research and testing, I successfully uploaded the pdf to SharePoint using Graph API, the test code is as follows, you can refer to :

PUT  https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{site-id}/drives/{drive-id}/root:/upload.pdf:/content  

Headers:  
Content-Type: application/pdf  

Test results:

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Answer 4

Thank you for the help and quick responses. The Graph api is working as intended. We had some code that was limiting the size of the file to 4mb. We have increased it and it is working now.