Planner Task Details Checklist

[mejohnm]

I am writing an Azure Function App using Graph 5.55. When I get the task details, the checklist are in a collection of Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions.Serialization.UntypedObjects. Is it possible to read the properties in that collection? I was truly expecting the same JSON responce as showed here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/plannertaskdetails-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=csharp

[andrueastman]

Thanks for raising this @mejohnm

If you are interested in the raw json string, you can simply use the serilization helpers to get the string value.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/kiota/serialization?tabs=csharp#serialization-helpers

var stringValue = KiotaJsonSerializer.SerializeAsString(objectValue);

[mejohnm]

But don't I need to deserialized here. I can see the _properties and then more of the Kiota.Serialization objects, and finally in those, the values which I need:

[baywet]

@mejohnm what's the ask here? do you want to access one of the sub-values of checklist programmatically? Could you provide an example JSON payload and point out what you'd like to do with it to illustrate things please?

[mejohnm]

@mejohnm what's the ask here? do you want to access one of the sub-values of checklist programmatically? Could you provide an example JSON payload and point out what you'd like to do with it to illustrate things please?

Yea, I am trying to read every checklist and its values for every task. I have never dealt with Microsoft Kiota before. I was expecting the JSON payload as shown on microsoft site: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/plannertaskdetails-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=csharp

It should return a JSON payload as shown in that link as:

{ "description": "Task details properties:\nchecklist:Sub items\nreferences:Related links", "previewType": "automatic", "references": { "https%3A//developer%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom/en-us/graph/graph-explorer": { "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.plannerExternalReference", "alias": "Graph Explorer", "type": "Other", "previewPriority": "0009005706180391122", "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "id": "fbab97d0-4932-4511-b675-204639209557" } }, "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-04-24T22:52:29.814Z" } }, "checklist": { "d280ed1a-9f6b-4f9c-a962-fb4d00dc50ff": { "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.plannerChecklistItem", "isChecked": false, "title": "Try reading task details", "orderHint": "8587094707721254251P]", "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "id": "e396de0e-4812-4fcb-9f9e-0358744df343" } }, "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-04-14T02:16:14.866Z" } }, "id": "gcrYAaAkgU2EQUvpkNNXLGQAGTtu" }

But it the returning payload returns the checklist portion as Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions.Serialization.UntypeObject shown in the images above.

Is it possible to get the values for the checklist? I just want to learn how?

[baywet]

Sure, assuming dotnet

if (myTaskDetails.Checklist.AdditionalData["d280ed1a-9f6b-4f9c-a962-fb4d00dc50ff"] is UntypedObject checkListItem && checkListItem.GetValue()["title"] is UntypedString titleNode)
{
      titleNode.GetValue();
}

Let us know if you have further questions

[mejohnm]

Sure, assuming dotnet

Many, many thanks. I really gave up on this and went to the HTTP call because that was easier to solve even though the "key" to the checklistitem seems to be a random 5 digit number. Doing it this way is cleaner and I do not need to make another service method using the HTTP route to call Microsoft Graph. The key at the "myTaskDetails.Checklist.AdditionalData["d280ed1a-9f6b-4f9c-a962-fb4d00dc50ff"]" was what got me.

It seems though I need to improve my C#. Do you have any recommendations which is about the topic which I got stuck in?

Again, thank you.

[baywet]

I think reading up on type assertions and pattern matching (recent language features) would have helped you here