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How can I upload a file to a personal OneDrive account?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
api, cloud

Research direction

Start with the linked upload-file-to-onedrive example and the Go call using Drives().ByDriveId().Items().ByDriveItemId().Children().Post. Reproduce the two reported errors for personal and Microsoft 365 accounts, then determine whether the SDK supports this upload flow. Done means the supported behavior or required workflow is documented and verified.

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Description

Hi, I'm working on a service that will automatically upload files that a user has requested periodically to their OneDrive. While I've managed to get this working for users with a Microsoft 365 account, I haven't been able to successfully upload a file for users with a personal Microsoft account / to their personal OneDrive.

Does the this SDK support uploading files to a personal OneDrive, and if so how would I do that?

A short example of what I have working for a Microsoft 365 account is in this repository - https://github.com/chriswilding/upload-file-to-onedrive.

The same technique does not work for a personal OneDrive. With a Microsoft 365 OneDrive account I was only able to upload a file in a two step process, first PUTing the file, and the POSTing the content. With a personal OneDrive account both setting and not setting the content results in an error.

         name := "example.txt"
	contentType := "text/csv"
	data := []byte("Hello,World!")

	newFile := models.NewFile()
	newFile.SetMimeType(&contentType)

	fileItem := models.NewDriveItem()
	fileItem.SetName(&name)
	fileItem.SetAdditionalData(map[string]interface{}{
		"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "replace",
	})
	fileItem.SetFile(newFile)

	// When trying to upload to a personal OneDrive account, if the content is set the a error is returned -
	// Error creating file item: [child] A stream property 'content' has a value in the payload. In OData, stream property must not have a value, it must only use property annotations.
	// error: invalidRequest
	// error: [child] A stream property 'content' has a value in the payload. In OData, stream property must not have a value, it must only use property annotations.
	//
	// However, if the content is not set then a different error is returned -
	// Error creating file item: Cannot create a file without content
	// error: invalidRequest
	// error: Cannot create a file without content
	// fileItem.SetContent(data)

	createdFileItem, err := client.Drives().ByDriveId("aDriveID").Items().
		ByDriveItemId("aParentDriveItem").Children().
		Post(context.Background(), fileItem, nil)
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