Code: itemNotFound Message: The resource could not be found.

Question

According to the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Retrieve the metadata for a driveItem in a drive by file system path or ID. item-id is the ID of a driveItem. It may also be the unique ID of a SharePoint list item.

Using the following request
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/01X7C23GQWT5UNU3YQ6FDICAEOASOWQ5LW?select=sharepointids

Response

{  
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('bdab55ad-2ff1-44f3-adb2-bded7f47379a')/drive/items/$entity",  
    "@odata.etag": "\"{DA689F16-106F-46F1-8100-8E049D687576},6\"",  
    "sharepointIds": {  
        "listId": "15e4036c-1f5c-4e28-a59d-c702407a5ba4",  
        "listItemId": "4",  
        "listItemUniqueId": "da689f16-106f-46f1-8100-8e049d687576",  
        "siteId": "92f9d935-71bc-4eab-868b-32dfbc1a460c",  
        "siteUrl": "REMOVED",  
        "tenantId": "ff732f75-0680-43aa-be16-a97c2520f0c4",  
        "webId": "3b556987-0954-417d-829f-76ab02dd1d2f"  
    }  
}  

Based on the documentation I should be able to make the same request using the "listItemUniqueId"?

Request:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/da689f16-106f-46f1-8100-8e049d687576/

Response

{  
    "error": {  
        "code": "itemNotFound",  
        "message": "The resource could not be found.",  
        "innerError": {  
            "date": "2022-08-12T14:29:13",  
            "request-id": "fdf19ff6-96d2-44b7-8bde-ad269dd74301",  
            "client-request-id": "882ce395-df9d-56c6-31d7-7684fb6b27e2"  
        }  
    }  
}  

The above requests were made using the https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer

I've also tried both with an application and still the same results. Has there been any changes?

If this is a backend issue, should it be returning itemNotFound, I don't think you should be retrying on this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/answers/questions/257165/itemnotfound-for-file-that-does-exist.html

In the above example, this is for OneDrive, but have seen it SharePoint Sites as well

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @AB

Hope you're doing well.

As per my research and understanding, you can't use listItemUniqueId as an item-id in https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}/ endpoint.
However, you can always pass a item-id of an item present in SharePoint List (in above endpoint). Please note that Items in a SharePoint document library can be represented as a listItem or driveItem resource.

For listing the items of a drive, use this endpoint- https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children
For listing the children of a driveItem, say a folder- https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}/children
Furthermore, you can replace item-id of folder in above endpoint by item-id of a residing file using Graph API response.

Hope this helps.
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Answer 2

Hi @HarmeetSingh7172
Thanks for getting back to me. Unless I've missed something the documentation has this

This was working previously around 8 weeks ago off the top of my head, I made changes in our application to use this id and it worked fine.