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InvalidRequest: Missing header Client-Request-Id. Header Client-Request-Id is not a guid

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reproducing the POST request to the workbook/comments endpoint from the AddComment example, including its Client-Request-Id header, and compare the request sent by Graph Explorer and the JavaScript client. Done means determining whether the Java SDK changes or drops the GUID header, or whether the rejection comes from the Graph API itself; no repository file or test is named in the report.

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Description

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Graph API End point:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drive/items/{item-id}/workbook/comments

Request Body:

{
  "content": "This is a sample text"
}

I am passing GUID in the Client-Request-Id but still the issue remains same.

When posting comments to a word document using graph Client getting
Error message: {"code":"InvalidRequest","message":"Missing header Client-Request-Id. Header Client-Request-Id is not a guid.","innerError":{"request-id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","date":"2024-09-20T17:03:58.6112675-07:00"}}

I tried using GraphExplorer,JavaCode(Refer Below),JavaScriptClient and everywhere the issue remains same.


import java.util.UUID;

import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClients;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.EntityUtils;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.StringEntity;

public class AddComment {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/" + "my-site-id" + "/drives/" + "my-drive-id" + "/items/" + "item-id" + "/workbook/comments";

            String clientRequestId = UUID.randomUUID().toString(); // Generate a new GUID
 
            CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault();
            HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);

            post.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer access-token");
            post.setHeader("client-Request-Id", clientRequestId);
            post.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
            String json = "{\"content\": \"MS Document Comment\"}";
            StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(json);
            post.setEntity(entity);

            CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
            String responseBody = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
            System.out.println(response.getCode());
            System.out.println(responseBody);

            client.close();
            // Handle the response...

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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