IFolder.files() returns empty array

[ahwitz]

IFolder.files() returns empty array

[bcameron1231]

Hi, I've taken a look but I haven't been able to reproduce. However, I was testing using Browser and not Node. So will continue to try and replicate.

[patrick-rodgers]

Did another test and just learned that if the folder is not found (i.e. the call to getFolderByServerRelativePath returns 404) you will get back an empty array of files vs a 404 when you call folder.files().

Not sure if that is what you are seeing here, but we are otherwise not able to reproduce this issue.

[juliemturner]

Ok, figured this out but took a bit of checking. The getFolderByServerRelativePath endpoint (and a few others) ONLY takes a non-encoded URL. So, the problem is you have %20 in the folder name... if you remove that it'll work. We will add to the docs about the endpoint needing to not be encoded.

[ahwitz]

Thanks, y'all - @juliemturner, I've converted the %20 to a space and still getting the same result.

Since we're dealing with character encodings, there is actually an underscore in the final folder directory, like:

const folder = await this.spInstance.getFolderByServerRelativePath(
    "/sites/Finance/Shared Documents/Economics/Source_Reports/"
);

...but other than that, the _url param is:

{
  _url: "https://nesthealthcares.sharepoint.com/sites/Finance/_api/web/getFolderByServerRelativePath(decodedUrl='%2Fsites%2FFinance%2FShared%20Documents%2FEconomics%2FNavinet_Reports%2F')"
}

Also, I tried the folderFromServerRelativePath logic that I see in the docs PR, and this structure:

    const folderBase2 = folderFromServerRelativePath(this.spInstance, filepath);
    console.log("folderBase2", folderBase2);
    const folder2 = await folderBase2();
    console.log("folder2", folder2);
    const files2 = await folder2.files();
    console.log("files2", files2);

...gives me a 404 with the same decodedUrl= URL in the debug. I'm still a bit new to Sharepoint, but if the user has access to the file (per a file in that folder loading), would they also have access to the folder, and if not, does MS obscure 401/403 as 404 like this?

[juliemturner]

You have a trailing / in your URL.. works fine with _ in the path.

[ahwitz]

That easy - we're set, can close this whenever y'all want. Thanks for the help!

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