Get directoryObject

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03/15/2024

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Retrieve the properties and relationships of a directoryObject object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Directory.Read.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Directory.Read.All	Not available.

HTTP request

GET /directoryObjects/{id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and directoryObject object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/directoryObjects/{id}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.DirectoryObjects["{directoryObject-id}"].GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta directory-objects get --directory-object-id {directoryObject-id}

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
directoryObjects, err := graphClient.DirectoryObjects().ByDirectoryObjectId("directoryObject-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryObject result = graphClient.directoryObjects().byDirectoryObjectId("{directoryObject-id}").get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let directoryObject = await client.api('/directoryObjects/{id}')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->directoryObjects()->byDirectoryObjectId('directoryObject-id')->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.DirectoryObjects

Get-MgBetaDirectoryObject -DirectoryObjectId $directoryObjectId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.directory_objects.by_directory_object_id('directoryObject-id').get()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#directoryObjects/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
    "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/84841066-274d-4ec0-a5c1-276be684bdd3/directoryObjects/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.User",
    "id": "6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0",
    "accountEnabled": true,
    "displayName": "Conf Room Adams",
    "mail": "[email protected]",
    "mailNickname": "Adams",
    "proxyAddresses": [
        "SMTP:[email protected]"
    ],
    "refreshTokensValidFromDateTime": "2021-08-09T09:30:59Z",
    "signInSessionsValidFromDateTime": "2021-08-09T09:30:59Z",
    "userPrincipalName": "[email protected]",
    "userType": "Member",
    "identities": [
        {
            "signInType": "userPrincipalName",
            "issuer": "Contoso.com",
            "issuerAssignedId": "[email protected]"
        }
    ]
}

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