Creating nested folder in Sharepoint with Graph API fails

Question

I can create a nested folder /folder1/folder2 in (personal) OneDrive with the following Graph request (using the beta API):

POST drives/{id}/root:/folder1:/children

{
  "name": "folder2",
  "folder": {},
  "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "fail"
}

Here, folder1 didn't exist beforehand; the one API call creates both it and folder1/folder2.

However, the same code fails for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business with a 404 error. Is this type of request supported? I'd rather not have to make a separate API call for every level of nesting.

I'm asking this because I'm not sure whether my site has policies that cause the request to fail, or because the API actually doesn't support it.

AFAIK, you should give the folder name(while giving path) or folder id(while giving id) of the parent folder to create a sub folder inside it, because the documentation should have the parent-item-id to create a folder. The only way is it make a separate API call for every level as you said. You can get the path property in the response when you create a folder, you can use it to automate calls easily. — Shiva Keshav Varma
– Shiva Keshav Varma, Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 4:22
@ShivaKeshavVarma the code above works for personal OneDrive; I've verified this — Hong Ooi
– Hong Ooi, Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 4:23
Yeah, I have also tested it in personal which worked but not with work account. — Shiva Keshav Varma
– Shiva Keshav Varma, Commented Mar 15, 2021 at 4:29

martinm · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-18 07:52:37Z

2

+100

This works for me. Remove name parameter from the body and use PATCH instead of POST. Specify the path in the URL.

PATCH drives/{id}/root:/folder1/folder2

{
    "folder": {},
    "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "fail"
}

Tested using v1.0 and beta for OneDrive for Business.

answered Mar 18, 2021 at 7:52

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Hong Ooi Over a year ago

Oh sweet, didn't know you could use PATCH to create a new file/folder.

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