Issue with MS Graph API search functionality returning inconsistent data

Question

Hello there, 

I'm working with an add-in solution in my company and we have encountered an issue while trying to locate a file on a customer’s drive using the Microsoft Graph API. Specifically, neither of the MS search endpoints we use is able to find or return the file. However, if we fetch a list of the user’s files separately, we can locate the file in the list (this was tested with my personal email and business email).

Here are the API details:

API version: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0

Endpoints used:

/me/drive/search

/search/query

The issue is reproducible with a file that was previously found but is no longer returned for some reason. Also, we are able to write to these files e.g. using the add-in so the file is not read-only.

Additionally, we observed the same behavior in the Graph Explorer sandbox: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer

For example:

• The file appears in the responses from the "list drive files" and "recent drive files" endpoints.
• However, the "search my drive" endpoint does not return the file.

Looking forward to any guidance or suggestions you may have on resolving this issue.Hello there, 

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi @Diego Mota

Have you tried the GET /me/drive/root/search(q='{search-text}') API? I just did a quick test locally and it worked fine for me.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-search?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http.

Hope this helps.

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