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OneDrive -- List Large Directory

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Demonstrates how to get the entire collection of DriveItem children when the collection is large and multiple pages need to be requested. To test this example, I created a DriveItem with 450 children.

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local success = false

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

-- This example uses the OAuth client credentials flow.
-- See How to Create an Azure App Registration for OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials

-- Use your client ID, client secret, and tenant ID in the following lines
local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json:update_string("client_id", "2871da2c-8176-4b7f-869b-2311aa82e743")
json:update_string("client_secret", "2hu9Q~r5QuryUcEkNbg1btLtnfU1VUXzhSCG6brH")
json:update_string("scope", "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default")
json:update_string("token_endpoint", "https://login.microsoftonline.com/114d7ed6-71bf-4dbe-a866-748364121bf2/oauth2/v2.0/token")

local http = chilkat.Http.new()
http.auth_token = json:emit()

-- This example will get the DriveItems in /lots-of-files, which has 450 children..
http:set_url_var("item_path", "/lots-of-files")
http:set_url_var("user_id", "4fe732c3-322e-4a6b-b729-2fd1eb5c6104")

local resp = ""
local i = 0
local numItems = 0

json.emit_compact = false

-- This loop will download DriveItems in sets of 25 until no more exist.
local bGetMore = true
-- (Add the $top query parameter to define the page size, i.e. the max number of results to return).
local nextLink = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{$user_id}/drive/root:{$item_path}:/children?$top=25"

while bGetMore do
    -- Get the next chunk of DriveItems
    resp = http:quick_get_str(nextLink)
    if not http.last_method_success then
        print(http.last_error_text)
        return
    end

    -- The response should be JSON.
    json:load(resp)

    -- A successful response should return a status code of 200.
    if http.last_status ~= 200 then
        print(json:emit())
        print("Response status = " .. http.last_status)
        return
    end

    -- Iterate over the DriveItems in the JSON response:
    i = 0
    numItems = json:size_of_array("value")
    while i < numItems do
        json.i = i
        print("name: " .. json:string_of("value[i].name"))
        i = i + 1
    end

    -- If a nextLink was included in the JSON, use it to get the next set of 50 DriveItems.
    -- Otherwise, exit the loop.
    if json:has_member("\"@odata.nextLink\"") then
        nextLink = json:string_of("\"@odata.nextLink\"")
        print("nextLink: " .. nextLink)
    else
        bGetMore = false
    end
end