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Search the me user's contact list for a specific contact.

Applies to: Skype for Business 2015

Searching for a user's contact requires accessing the search resource. It involves resource navigation from application to people to search, specifying in the query parameter the email address of the specified contact and the maximum number of values to return. The programming flow is illustrated in the following steps.

The steps here assume that you have already created an application and have received a response that contains the href for an application resource. For more information, see Create an application.

  1. Send a GET request on the search resource following the links from people resource embedded in the application resource.
GET https://lyncweb.contoso.com/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/search?query=sarad@contoso.com&limit=3 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer cwt=AAEB...buHcmvDs1Z7CzwgNEPoG3XyftjBYhE5zTT0buHc
Accept: application/json
X-Ms-Origin: http://localhost
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: https://lyncweb.contoso.com/Autodiscover/XFrame/XFrame.html
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Host: lyncweb.contoso.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
  1. Process the response from the previous GET request to obtain the contact info.

The response you receive should be 200 OK. The body of the response contains an array property named "contact" that is an array of individual contacts. Each item in the array includes information about a contact's URI, source network, and screen name, as well as links to other information about the contact.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 3691
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:04:19 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Cache-Control: no-cache
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-MS-Server-Fqdn: W15-LYNC-SE1.contoso.com
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

{
"moreResultsAvailable":false,
"_links":{"self":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/search?query=sarad@contoso.com\u0026limit=3"}},
"_embedded":{
"contact": [
{
"uri":"sip:SaraD@contoso.com","sourceNetwork":"SameEnterprise",
"company":"Metio","department":"Sales \u0026 Marketing","office":"20/2107",
"title":"Product Manager","emailAddresses": ["SaraD@contoso.com"],
"workPhoneNumber":"tel:+19185550107","type":"User",
"name":"Sara Davis",
"_links":{
"self":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/sarad@contoso.com"},
"contactPhoto":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/photos/SaraD@contoso.com"},
"contactPresence":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/sarad@contoso.com/presence"},
"contactLocation":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/sarad@contoso.com/location"},
"contactNote":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/sarad@contoso.com/note"},
"contactSupportedModalities":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/sarad@contoso.com/supportedMedia"},
"contactPrivacyRelationship":{"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications/101/people/sarad@contoso.com/privacyRelationship"}
},
"rel":"contact",
"etag":"58253032"
}
]
},
"rel":"search"
}