Supporting search in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business deployments

Problem description:

The search we use leverage OneDrive Graph API, which, to our surprise, returns inconsistent results across different versions of OneDrive. The path field returned in parentReference, which we use to determine the route of the search result, is missing in sites including SharePoint versions of OneDrive. (And I suspect OneDrive for Education also would fail.)

Response in OneDrive international:

{
  // ...
  "parentReference": {
    "driveId": "ba63e0ea99dd98a3",
    "driveType": "personal",
    "id": "BA63E0EA99DD98A3!101",
    "path": "/drive/root:/Public/...images"
  }
}

Response in OneDrive for Business (or SharePoint):

{
  // ...
  "parentReference": {
   "driveId": "b!HHKxEe-tCUSO3uwES5r92kUCpw2Kc7ZOsvIWTv_MiTfm6fDv2B0pQrMbNCud5_8Q"
    "driveType": "business"
    "id": "01EYSPL6RHQBXPXWRLUVFYF5VWBO2QFEYF"
  }
}

Tasks

• Display a short error message for SharePoint users for now.
• Find a valid API return that could be used to determine the route of search results.

[spencerwooo]

Still waiting for my own SharePoint to finish building its search index 😮‍💨.

I currently have nothing returned in my search results no matter what I search for. (As of 16:33 UTC+8, Jan.23, 2022)

Edit: I don’t know if anyone is experiencing the same thing but:

• https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-api-docs/issues/1394
• https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-api-docs/issues/893

[spencerwooo]

oh my god it’s working now…?? why!!?