driveItem resource type
Namespace: microsoft.graph
The driveItem resource represents a file, folder, or other item stored in a drive.
All file system objects in OneDrive and SharePoint are returned as driveItem resources. Items in SharePoint document libraries can be represented as listItem or driveItem resources.
There are two primary ways of addressing a driveItem resource:
- By the driveItem unique identifier using
drive/items/{item-id} - By file system path using
/drive/root:/path/to/file
For more information, see addressing driveItems.
driveItem resources have facets modeled as properties that provide data about the driveItem's identities and capabilities. For example:
- Folders have a folder facet
- Files have a file facet.
- Images have an image facet in addition to their file facet.
- Images taken with a camera (photos) have a photo facet that identifies the item as a photo and provides the properties of when the photo was taken and with what device.
Items with the folder facet act as containers of items and therefore have a children reference pointing to a collection of driveItems under the folder.
Note: In OneDrive for Business or SharePoint document libraries, the cTag property isn't returned, if the driveItem has a folder facet.
Methods
| Method | Return Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Get item | driveItem | Retrieve the metadata for a driveItem in a drive. |
| Get analytics | itemAnalytics | Get analytics for this resource. |
| Get activities by interval | itemActivityStat | Get a collection of itemActivityStats within the specified time interval. |
| List children | driveItem collection | Return a collection of driveItems in the children relationship of a driveItem. |
| List versions | driveItemVersion collection | Retrieve the versions of a file in the current user's drive. |
| Create folder | driveItem | Create a driveItem in the specified drive. |
| Update item | driveItem | Update a driveItem in the drive. |
| Upload | driveItem | Upload content to the driveItem. |
| Download file | download Url | Download content of a driveItem. |
| Download specific file format | download Url | Download content of a driveItem with a specific format. |
| Delete item | None | Delete a driveItem. |
| Permanently delete item | None | Permanently delete a driveItem by using its ID. |
| Move item | driveItem | Move a driveItem to a new parent item. |
| Copy item | details about how to monitor the progress of the copy | Create a copy of a driveItem (including any children). |
| Search items | driveItem collection | Search the hierarchy of items for items matching a query. |
| Track changes | delta link | List any changes in the drive. |
| Follow item | driveItem | Follow a driveItem. |
| Unfollow item | None | Unfollow a driveItem. |
| Get thumbnails | driveItem collection | List driveItems with their thumbnails. |
| Create sharing link | sharing link | Create a link to share the driveItem. |
| Add permissions | permission collection | Send a sharing invite to a user. |
| List permissions | permission collection | Retrieve the collection of permissions on an driveItem. |
| Delete permission | None | Remove the permission from the driveItem. |
| Get WebSocket channel | subscription | Receive near-real-time change notifications for a drive using socket.io. |
| Preview item | json object | Obtain short-lived embeddable URLs for an item in order to render a temporary preview. |
| Check in files | None | Check in a checked out driveItem resource, which makes the version of the document available to others. |
| Check out files | None | Check out a driveItem resource to prevent others from editing the document, and prevent your changes from being visible until the documented is checked in. |
| Discard checkout | None | Discard a previously checked out driveItem. |
| Extract sensitivity labels | extractSensitivityLabelsResult | Extract one or more sensitivity labels assigned to a drive item and update the metadata of a drive item with the latest details of the assigned label. |
| Assign sensitivity label | String | Asynchronously assign a sensitivity label to a driveItem. |
| Get retention label | itemRetentionLabel | Get metadata information for a retention label applied on a driveItem. |
| Set retention label | itemRetentionLabel | Apply (set) a retention label on a driveItem (files and folders). |
| Remove retention label | None | Remove a retention label from a driveItem. |
| Lock or unlock record | itemRetentionLabel | Lock or unlock a retention label on a driveItem that classifies content as records. |
Properties
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| audio | audio | Audio metadata, if the item is an audio file. Read-only. Read-only. Only on OneDrive Personal. |
| bundle | bundle | Bundle metadata, if the item is a bundle. Read-only. |
| content | Stream | The content stream, if the item represents a file. |
| createdBy | identitySet | Identity of the user, device, and application that created the item. Read-only. |
| createdDateTime | DateTimeOffset | Date and time of item creation. Read-only. |
| cTag | String | An eTag for the content of the item. This eTag isn't changed if only the metadata is changed. Note This property isn't returned if the item is a folder. Read-only. |
| deleted | deleted | Information about the deleted state of the item. Read-only. |
| description | String | Provides a user-visible description of the item. Read-write. Only on OneDrive Personal. |
| eTag | String | eTag for the entire item (metadata + content). Read-only. |
| file | file | File metadata, if the item is a file. Read-only. |
| fileSystemInfo | fileSystemInfo | File system information on client. Read-write. |
| folder | folder | Folder metadata, if the item is a folder. Read-only. |
| id | String | The unique identifier of the item within the Drive. Read-only. |
| image | image | Image metadata, if the item is an image. Read-only. |
| lastModifiedBy | identitySet | Identity of the user, device, and application that last modified the item. Read-only. |
| lastModifiedDateTime | DateTimeOffset | Date and time the item was last modified. Read-only. |
| location | geoCoordinates | Location metadata, if the item has location data. Read-only. |
| malware | malware | Malware metadata, if the item was detected to contain malware. Read-only. |
| name | String | The name of the item (filename and extension). Read-write. |
| package | package | If present, indicates that this item is a package instead of a folder or file. Packages are treated like files in some contexts and folders in others. Read-only. |
| parentReference | itemReference | Parent information, if the item has a parent. Read-write. |
| pendingOperations | pendingOperations | If present, indicates that one or more operations that might affect the state of the driveItem are pending completion. Read-only. |
| photo | photo | Photo metadata, if the item is a photo. Read-only. |
| publication | publicationFacet | Provides information about the published or checked-out state of an item, in locations that support such actions. This property isn't returned by default. Read-only. |
| remoteItem | remoteItem | Remote item data, if the item is shared from a drive other than the one being accessed. Read-only. |
| root | root | If this property is non-null, it indicates that the driveItem is the top-most driveItem in the drive. |
| searchResult | searchResult | Search metadata, if the item is from a search result. Read-only. |
| shared | shared | Indicates that the item was shared with others and provides information about the shared state of the item. Read-only. |
| sharepointIds | sharepointIds | Returns identifiers useful for SharePoint REST compatibility. Read-only. |
| size | Int64 | Size of the item in bytes. Read-only. |
| specialFolder | specialFolder | If the current item is also available as a special folder, this facet is returned. Read-only. |
| video | video | Video metadata, if the item is a video. Read-only. |
| webDavUrl | String | WebDAV compatible URL for the item. |
| webUrl | String | URL that displays the resource in the browser. Read-only. |
Note: The eTag and cTag properties work differently on containers (folders). The cTag value is modified when content or metadata of any descendant of the folder is changed. The eTag value is only modified when the folder's properties are changed, except for properties that are derived from descendants (like childCount or lastModifiedDateTime).
Relationships
| Relationship | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| activities | itemActivity collection | The list of recent activities that took place on this item. |
| analytics | itemAnalytics resource | Analytics about the view activities that took place on this item. |
| children | driveItem collection | Collection containing Item objects for the immediate children of Item. Only items representing folders have children. Read-only. Nullable. |
| createdByUser | user | Identity of the user who created the item. Read-only. |
| lastModifiedByUser | user | Identity of the user who last modified the item. Read-only. |
| listItem | listItem | For drives in SharePoint, the associated document library list item. Read-only. Nullable. |
| permissions | permission collection | The set of permissions for the item. Read-only. Nullable. |
| retentionLabel | itemRetentionLabel | Information about retention label and settings enforced on the driveItem. Read-write. |
| subscriptions | subscription collection | The set of subscriptions on the item. Only supported on the root of a drive. |
| thumbnails | thumbnailSet collection | Collection of thumbnailSet objects associated with the item. For more information, see getting thumbnails. Read-only. Nullable. |
| versions | driveItemVersion collection | The list of previous versions of the item. For more info, see getting previous versions. Read-only. Nullable. |
| workbook | workbook | For files that are Excel spreadsheets, access to the workbook API to work with the spreadsheet's contents. Nullable. |
Instance Attributes
Instance attributes are properties with special behaviors. These properties are temporary and either define behavior the service should perform or provide short-term property values, like a download URL for an item that expires.
| Property name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| @microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior | string | The conflict resolution behavior for actions that create a new item. You can use the values fail, replace, or rename. The default for PUT is replace. An item is never returned with this annotation. Write-only. |
| @microsoft.graph.downloadUrl | string | A URL that can be used to download this file's content. Authentication isn't required with this URL. Read-only. |
| @microsoft.graph.sourceUrl | string | This instance annotation can be used to instruct the service to download the contents of the URL when issuing a PUT request, and stores it as the file. Write-only. |
Notes: The parameter
@microsoft.graph.conflictBehaviorshould be included in the URL instead of the body of the request.The
@microsoft.graph.downloadUrlvalue is a short-lived URL and can't be cached. The URL is invalidated after for a short period of time (1 hour). Removing file permissions for a user might not immediately invalidate the URL.Using the
@microsoft.graph.sourceUrlproperty for file uploading is not supported in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and SharePoint Server 2016.
JSON representation
The following JSON representation shows the resource type.
The driveItem resource is derived from baseItem and inherits properties from that resource.
{
"audio": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.audio" },
"bundle": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.bundle" },
"content": { "@odata.type": "Edm.Stream" },
"cTag": "string (etag)",
"deleted": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.deleted"},
"description": "string",
"file": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.file" },
"fileSystemInfo": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.fileSystemInfo" },
"folder": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.folder" },
"image": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.image" },
"location": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.geoCoordinates" },
"malware": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.malware" },
"package": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.package" },
"pendingOperations": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.pendingOperations" },
"photo": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.photo" },
"publication": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.publicationFacet"},
"remoteItem": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.remoteItem" },
"root": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.root" },
"searchResult": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.searchResult" },
"shared": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.shared" },
"sharepointIds": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.sharepointIds" },
"size": 1024,
"specialFolder": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.specialFolder" },
"video": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.video" },
"webDavUrl": "string",
/* relationships */
"activities": [{"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.itemActivity"}],
"analytics": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.itemAnalytics"},
"children": [{ "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.driveItem" }],
"createdByUser": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.user" },
"retentionLabel": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.itemRetentionLabel" },
"lastModifiedByUser": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.user" },
"permissions": [ {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.permission"} ],
"subscriptions": [ {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.subscription"} ],
"thumbnails": [ {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.thumbnailSet"}],
"versions": [ {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.driveItemVersion"}],
/* inherited from baseItem */
"createdBy": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.identitySet"},
"createdDateTime": "String (timestamp)",
"eTag": "string",
"id": "string (identifier)",
"lastModifiedBy": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.identitySet"},
"lastModifiedDateTime": "String (timestamp)",
"name": "string",
"parentReference": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.itemReference"},
"webUrl": "string",
/* instance annotations */
"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "string",
"@microsoft.graph.downloadUrl": "url",
"@microsoft.graph.sourceUrl": "url"
}