Graph API call fails when name contains special characters

Question

I have a file named 'F%5cAustin%5cFinance%5cIBM BPO Vendor Master%5cVendor Processing%5cNares...doc' which I created on windows and later uploaded it to onedrive.

I am trying two API calls on this file

1./drive/root:/{file-path} where the name of the file is encoded, using url encoding.
This API call succeeds and returns a driveItem

2./drive/items/$folderId/children('{name of the file}')
This API fails with Bad Request. Error in query syntax. It doesn't matter if the name of the file is not encoded or encoded.

I just wanted to know is there particular way of encoding that MS supports for all it's API calls.

Answer 1

It is good to check the unsupported file/folder names which are reserved in OneDrive. Following link will give you the list

onedrive-addressing-driveitems

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Answer 2

Hi @Vinanth S Bharadwa , I did the related tests and encountered the same problem, I recommend opening a support ticket to see if the back office engineer has a better solution