Recursive List Items
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- R
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Description
Is there a way for list_items() to work recursively in directories? If not, this feature would be very handy to have.
First, to make sure I'm not misunderstanding how to use the package, I can run all of the following commands successfully:
```
site <- get_sharepoint_site(
site_url = "https://[our subdomain].sharepoint.com"
)
drv <- site$get_drive()
drv$list_items()
drv$list_items(filter = "name eq '[name of some folder at top level of hierarchy]'")
```
But when i try to use filter with a name in one of the subfolders, doesn't seem to get results.
```
drv$list_items(filter = "name eq '[name of file in a subfolder with extension]'")
# [1] name size isdir id
# <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
```
I've seen that there are some ways to do recursive operations by looking up child directories in for loops, but that seems like a non-starter for the volume of directories I need to iterate over, each of which with their own folder hierarchy.
My overall goal is to replicate something like the search feature on Sharepoint--I need to return a dataframe of document metadata for documents with a specific name scattered throughout our Sharepoint site.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing list_items() behavior and how Microsoft Graph exposes SharePoint drive-item listing or search. The issue's goal is a dataframe of document metadata matching a name across nested folders; done should mean matching files can be returned without manually traversing each directory.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- api, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100