directoryObject: getByIds

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Return the directory objects specified in a list of IDs. Only a subset of user properties are returned by default in v1.0.

Some common uses for this function are to:

• Resolve IDs returned by functions (that return collections of IDs) such as getMemberObjects or getMemberGroups to their backing directory objects.
• Resolve IDs persisted in an external store by the application to their backing directory objects.

This API is supported in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Directory.Read.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Directory.Read.All

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it does not have permission to read a certain derived type (like device), members of that type are returned but with limited information. With this behavior, applications can request the least privileged permissions they need, rather than rely on the set of Directory.* permissions. For details, see Limited information returned for inaccessible member objects.

HTTP request

POST /directoryObjects/getByIds

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
ids	String collection	A collection of IDs for which to return objects. The IDs are GUIDs, represented as strings. You can specify up to 1000 IDs.
types	String collection	A collection of resource types that specifies the set of resource collections to search. If not specified, the default is directoryObject, which contains all of the resource types defined in the directory. Any object that derives from directoryObject may be specified in the collection; for example: user, group, and device objects. To search for references to a Cloud Solution Provider partner organization specify directoryObjectPartnerReference. If not specified, the default is directoryObject, which contains all of the resource types defined in the directory, except for references to a Cloud Solution Provider partner organization. The values are not case-sensitive.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a string collection object in the response body.

Example

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryObjects/getByIds
Content-type: application/json

{
    "ids": [
        "84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544",
        "5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",
        "0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef",
        "b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0"
    ],
    "types": [
        "user",
        "group",
        "device"
    ]
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var requestBody = new Microsoft.Graph.DirectoryObjects.GetByIds.GetByIdsPostRequestBody
{
	Ids = new List<string>
	{
		"84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544",
		"5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",
		"0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef",
		"b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0",
	},
	Types = new List<string>
	{
		"user",
		"group",
		"device",
	},
};
var result = await graphClient.DirectoryObjects.GetByIds.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc directory-objects get-by-ids post --body '{\
    "ids": [\
        "84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544",\
        "5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",\
        "0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef",\
        "b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0"\
    ],\
    "types": [\
        "user",\
        "group",\
        "device"\
    ]\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphdirectoryobjects "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/directoryobjects"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphdirectoryobjects.NewGetByIdsPostRequestBody()
ids := []string {
	"84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544",
	"5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",
	"0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef",
	"b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0",
}
requestBody.SetIds(ids)
types := []string {
	"user",
	"group",
	"device",
}
requestBody.SetTypes(types)

getByIds, err := graphClient.DirectoryObjects().GetByIds().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

LinkedList<String> idsList = new LinkedList<String>();
idsList.add("84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544");
idsList.add("5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0");
idsList.add("0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef");
idsList.add("b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0");

LinkedList<String> typesList = new LinkedList<String>();
typesList.add("user");
typesList.add("group");
typesList.add("device");

graphClient.directoryObjects()
	.getByIds(DirectoryObjectGetByIdsParameterSet
		.newBuilder()
		.withIds(idsList)
		.withTypes(typesList)
		.build())
	.buildRequest()
	.post();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const directoryObject = {
    ids: [
        '84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544',
        '5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0',
        '0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef',
        'b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0'
    ],
    types: [
        'user',
        'group',
        'device'
    ]
};

await client.api('/directoryObjects/getByIds')
	.post(directoryObject);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new GetByIdsPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setIds(['84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544', '5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0', '0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef', 'b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0', 	]);
$requestBody->setTypes(['user', 'group', 'device', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->directoryObjects()->getByIds()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.DirectoryObjects

$params = @{
	ids = @(
		"84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544"
		"5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0"
		"0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef"
		"b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0"
	)
	types = @(
		"user"
		"group"
		"device"
	)
}

Get-MgDirectoryObjectById -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(request_adapter)

request_body = GetByIdsPostRequestBody(
	ids = [
		"84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544",
		"5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",
		"0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef",
		"b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0",
	]
	types = [
		"user",
		"group",
		"device",
	]
)

result = await graph_client.directory_objects.get_by_ids.post(body = request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directoryObjects",
    "value": [
      {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
        "id": "84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544",
        "accountEnabled": true,
        "displayName": "Trevor Jones"
      },
      {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
        "id": "5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",
        "accountEnabled": true,
        "displayName": "Billy Smith"
      },
      {
         "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.group",
         "id": "0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef",
         "description": "Pineview School Staff",
         "groupTypes": [
             "Unified"
         ]
      },
      {
         "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.device",
         "id": "b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0",
         "displayName": "e8ba4e98c000002",
         "deviceId": "4c299165-6e8f-4b45-a5ba-c5d250a707ff"
      }
    ]
}