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 available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Directory.Read.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Directory.Read.All	Not available.

Important

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it doesn't have permission to read a certain resource type, members of that type are returned but with limited information. For example, only the @odata.type property for the object type and the id is returned, while other properties are indicated as null. 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. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.DirectoryObjects.GetByIds;

var requestBody = new 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",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.DirectoryObjects.GetByIds.PostAsGetByIdsPostResponseAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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

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)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
getByIds, err := graphClient.DirectoryObjects().GetByIds().PostAsGetByIdsPostResponse(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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.directoryobjects.getbyids.GetByIdsPostRequestBody getByIdsPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.directoryobjects.getbyids.GetByIdsPostRequestBody();
LinkedList<String> ids = new LinkedList<String>();
ids.add("84b80893-8749-40a3-97b7-68513b600544");
ids.add("5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0");
ids.add("0b944de3-e0fc-4774-a49a-b135213725ef");
ids.add("b75a5ab2-fe55-4463-bd31-d21ad555c6e0");
getByIdsPostRequestBody.setIds(ids);
LinkedList<String> types = new LinkedList<String>();
types.add("user");
types.add("group");
types.add("device");
getByIdsPostRequestBody.setTypes(types);
var result = graphClient.directoryObjects().getByIds().post(getByIdsPostRequestBody);

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
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\DirectoryObjects\GetByIds\GetByIdsPostRequestBody;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($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

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.directoryobjects.get_by_ids.get_by_ids_post_request_body import GetByIdsPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
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(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",
        "displayName": "Trevor Jones"
      },
      {
        "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
        "id": "5d6059b6-368d-45f8-91e1-8e07d485f1d0",
        "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"
      }
    ]
}