Create contact

• 5/4/2019
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Add a contact to the root Contacts folder or to the contacts endpoint of another contact folder.

Permissions

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

HTTP request

POST /me/contacts
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts

POST /me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/contacts

Request headers

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the Contact object.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and the Contact object in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 210

{
  "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
  "birthday": "datetime-value",
  "fileAs": "fileAs-value",
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "givenName": "givenName-value",
  "initials": "initials-value"
}

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the Contact object.

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 210

{
  "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
  "birthday": "datetime-value",
  "fileAs": "fileAs-value",
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "givenName": "givenName-value",
  "initials": "initials-value"
}

SDK sample code

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );

var contact = new Contact
{
	ParentFolderId = "parentFolderId-value",
	Birthday = "datetime-value",
	FileAs = "fileAs-value",
	DisplayName = "displayName-value",
	GivenName = "givenName-value",
	Initials = "initials-value"
};

await graphClient.Me.ContactFolders["{id}"].Contacts
	.Request()
	.AddAsync(contact);

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const contact = {
  parentFolderId: "parentFolderId-value",
  birthday: "datetime-value",
  fileAs: "fileAs-value",
  displayName: "displayName-value",
  givenName: "givenName-value",
  initials: "initials-value"
};

let res = await client.api('/me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts')
	.post({contact : contact});

Read the SDK documentation for details on how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance.