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Misleading Error Message When Creating a Task in a Full Mailbox

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reproducing TodoTask creation for a full mailbox and review the TasksRequestBuilder stacktrace shown in the report. The issue is done when this condition produces a more accurate error message or status code that distinguishes a full mailbox from a permissions problem.

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Description

status:waiting-for-triage type:bug
Describe the bug

When we try to create a TodoTask in a full Mailbox, we get this error Message:
"com.microsoft.graph.models.odataerrors.ODataError: Access is denied to the requested resource. The user might not have enough permission."

Stacktrace:
See "Debug Output"

Expected behavior

A better Error Message or Status Code. We can correctly create >99% of our TodoTasks for our Users and we only get this Error Message for Users, which have a full Mailbox. Developers who don't know this wired Behavior maybe think, that the Service Principle has not the correct permissions.
Please fix this behavior.

How to reproduce

Create a TodoTask for a MailBox, which is full.

SDK Version

6.23.0

Latest version known to work for scenario above?

No response

Known Workarounds

-No

Debug output

com.microsoft.graph.models.odataerrors.ODataError: Access is denied to the requested resource. The user might not have enough permission.
at com.microsoft.graph.models.odataerrors.ODataError.createFromDiscriminatorValue(ODataError.java:36)
at com.microsoft.kiota.serialization.JsonParseNode.getObjectValue(JsonParseNode.java:212)
at com.microsoft.kiota.http.OkHttpRequestAdapter.lambda$throwIfFailedResponse$0(OkHttpRequestAdapter.java:673)
at com.microsoft.kiota.ApiExceptionBuilder.(ApiExceptionBuilder.java:26)
at com.microsoft.kiota.http.OkHttpRequestAdapter.throwIfFailedResponse(OkHttpRequestAdapter.java:672)
at com.microsoft.kiota.http.OkHttpRequestAdapter.send(OkHttpRequestAdapter.java:280)
at com.microsoft.graph.users.item.todo.lists.item.tasks.TasksRequestBuilder.post(TasksRequestBuilder.java:116)
at com.microsoft.graph.users.item.todo.lists.item.tasks.TasksRequestBuilder.post(TasksRequestBuilder.java:101)
at ... (Our Code in an SpringBoot App)

Configuration

Spring Boot App in an Azure AKS

Other information

The mailboxes of the users are very full. This often happens with users who had an "E3" license, which was downgraded to an "EOK" license. They now have only a 50MB quota, down from their previous 2GB quota, and their mailboxes are often over 1000% full. This Problem is persistent and occurs for the users every day when we try to create a TodoTask

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