List childFolders

11/27/2018
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Important: APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are in preview and are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported.

Get the folder collection under the specified folder. You can use the .../me/MailFolders shortcut to get the top-level folder collection and navigate to another folder.

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)	Mail.Read, Mail.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.Read, Mail.ReadWrite
Application	Mail.Read, Mail.ReadWrite

HTTP request

GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and collection of MailFolder objects in the response body.

Example 1

Request 1

The following is an example of the request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/mailFolders/AAMkAGVmMDEzM/childFolders

Response 1

The following is an example of the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability. All the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 232

{
  "value": [
    {
        "id": "AAMkAGVmMDEzA",
        "displayName": "Internal Screens",
        "parentFolderId": "AAMkAGVmMDEzM",
        "childFolderCount": 0,
        "unreadItemCount": 2,
        "totalItemCount": 2,
        "wellKnownName": null
    },
    {
        "id": "AAMkAGVmMDEzB",
        "displayName": "Project Falcon",
        "parentFolderId": "AAMkAGVmMDEzM",
        "childFolderCount": 0,
        "unreadItemCount": 5,
        "totalItemCount": 5,
        "wellKnownName": null
    },
    {
        "id": "AAMkAGVmMDEzMA",
        "displayName": "Finder",
        "parentFolderId": "AAMkAGVmMDEzM",
        "childFolderCount": 4,
        "unreadItemCount": 0,
        "totalItemCount": 0,
        "wellKnownName": "searchfolders"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2

Request 2