Office365-REST-Python-Client

Bug fixes (#183) and publish package to PyPi (PR #184)

Support for simplified methods to authenticate against SharePoint

Now for user credentials flow, instead of

ctx_auth = AuthenticationContext(url=site_url)
ctx_auth.acquire_token_for_user(username,password):
ctx = ClientContext(site_url, ctx_auth)

an authenticated client could be initialized like this:

ctx = ClientContext.connect_with_credentials(site_url, UserCredential(username,password))

and for client credentials flow (aka SharePoint App-Only) instead of

ctx_auth = AuthenticationContext(url=site_url)
ctx_auth.acquire_token_for_app(client_id,client_secret):
ctx = ClientContext(site_url, ctx_auth)

like this:

ctx = ClientContext.connect_with_credentials(site_url, ClientCredential(client_id,client_secret))

Introduced support for provision modern Team & Communication sites (#179)

• GroupSiteManager.create_group_ex - create a Team site

• SPSiteManager.create - create a Communication site

Examples

Create a Team Site

client = ClientContext.connect_with_credentials(url,ClientCredential(client_id,client_secret))
site_manager = GroupSiteManager(client)
info = site_manager.create_group_ex("Team Site", "teamsite", True, None)
client.execute_query()

Create a Communication site

client = ClientContext.connect_with_credentials(url,ClientCredential(client_id,client_secret))
site_manager = SPSiteManager(client)
request = SPSiteCreationRequest("CommSite", "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/commsite")
response = site_manager.create(request)
client.execute_query()

Bug fixes and feature requests

• #174 and #28 - a bug which prevented to authenticate successfully with user credentials on not root site collections or a sub sites
• #181 - missing types
• #178 - introduced support for provision modern Team & Communication sites

• Support for SAML-based federated authentication with SharePoint Online

• Bug fixes and feature requests: #170 #171

Mainly unit testing bug fixes for Travis CI

The list of changes:

One Drive API:

• introduced new resources such as ContentType, ColumnDefinition

• support for Resumable file upload

SharePoint API:

support for chunk file upload, for example:

ctx = ClientContext(site_url, ctx_auth)
size_1Mb = 1000000
local_path = "./data/big_buck_bunny.mp4"
target_url = "/Shared Documents"

result_file = ctx.web.get_folder_by_server_relative_url(target_url)
       .files.create_upload_session(local_path, size_1Mb, print_upload_progress)
ctx.execute_query()

Release changes:

• GraphClient client has been introduced for working with Microsoft Graph endpoint
• CAML query builder has been introduced (credit goes to @domdinicola)

• introduced support for Introduced support for SharePoint 2010 list data service, ListDataService class

• added methods and properties for List, ListItem and Field resources:

  • ListItem.validate_update_listItem method - Validates and sets the values of the specified collection of fields for the list item.
  • ListItem.system_update method
  • ListItem.update_overwrite_version method
  • ListItem.parent_list navigation property
  • List.fields navigation property
  • FieldCollection.add method
  • FieldCollection.get_by_id method
  • FieldCollection.get_by_internal_name_or_title method
  • FieldCollection.get_by_title method
  • Field.update method
  • Field.delete method

• Added support for NTLM authentication #110

• Switch context per web #111

All the credit goes to @Aisbergg for those changes!

• Outlook client transitioned from Office 365 Outlook REST API to Microsoft Graph-based Outlook REST API

• introduced support for for Resource Owner Password Credential (ROPC) flow, which is suitable for scenarios where BasicAuth (discontinued nowadays) was utilized before

Introduced support for SharePoint authentication via OAuth (app principal) and SharePoint CAML queries