List children of a driveItem

09/10/2017
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Return a collection of DriveItems in the children relationship of a DriveItem.

DriveItems with a non-null folder or package facet can have one or more child DriveItems.

Permissions

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

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/children
GET /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/children
GET /me/drive/items/{item-id}/children
GET /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/children
GET /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/children

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $expand, $select, $skipToken, $top and $orderby OData query parameters to customize the response.

Optional request headers

Name	Value	Description
if-none-match	etag	If this request header is included and the eTag (or cTag) provided matches the current tag on the file, an `HTTP 304 Not Modified` response is returned.

Examples

List children in the root of the current user's drive

To retrieve files in the root of the drive, use the root relationship on the drive, then access the children relationship.

GET /me/drive/root/children


GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );

var children = await graphClient.Me.Drive.Root.Children
	.Request()
	.GetAsync();

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let res = await client.api('/me/drive/root/children')
	.get();

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


MSHTTPClient *httpClient = [MSClientFactory createHTTPClientWithAuthenticationProvider:authenticationProvider];

NSString *MSGraphBaseURL = @"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/";
NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[MSGraphBaseURL stringByAppendingString:@"/me/drive/root/children"]]];
[urlRequest setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];

MSURLSessionDataTask *meDataTask = [httpClient dataTaskWithRequest:urlRequest 
	completionHandler: ^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *nserror) {

		NSError *jsonError = nil;
		NSDictionary *jsonFinal = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:&jsonError];
		NSMutableArray *driveItemList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
		driveItemList = [jsonFinal valueForKey:@"value"];
		MSGraphDriveItem *driveItem = [[MSGraphDriveItem alloc] initWithDictionary:[driveItemList objectAtIndex: 0] error:&nserror];

}];

[meDataTask execute];

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


IGraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

IDriveItemCollectionPage children = graphClient.me().drive().root().children()
	.buildRequest()
	.get();

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