I am using the client object model and I want to access a List using the server relative Url.
Folders can be accessed using the web.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl but no such function exists for lists.
The available API is web.Lists.GetByID and web.Lists.GetByTitle which I can't use (The list title is different from the listname/listpath)
Try this:
public List GetListByRelativeUrl(String relativeUrl)
{
List existingList;
Web web = context.Web;
ListCollection lists = web.Lists;
IEnumerable<List> existingLists = context.LoadQuery(
lists.Where( list => list.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl == relativeUrl)
);
context.ExecuteQuery();
existingList = existingLists.FirstOrDefault();
return existingList;
}
Each list has a root folder - you can find it by using the ServerRelativeUrl property.
You can use by this way:
try
{
SP.ClientContext ctx = new SP.ClientContext("yoursiteurl");
ctx.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
ctx.AuthenticationMode = SP.ClientAuthenticationMode.Default;
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
IEnumerable<SP.List> newLists;
var query = from list in ctx.Web.Lists
where list.DefaultViewUrl == "/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx"
select list;
newLists = ctx.LoadQuery(query);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
foreach (SP.List l in newLists)
{
MessageBox.Show(l.Title);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
i know its old, but both solutions are not working in all cases. So its my example that work all the times
public List GetListByServerRelativeUrl(ClientContext context, string relativeUrl)
{
List existingList;
Web oWebsite = context.Web;
ListCollection collList = oWebsite.Lists;
context.Load(
collList,
lists => lists.Include(
list => list.Title,
list => list.Id,
list => list.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl));
context.ExecuteQuery();
existingList = collList.First(list => list.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl == relativeUrl);
return existingList;
}
