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Request never resolves if URL is too long

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api

Research direction

Begin at the client.api(...).get() and select(...) entry points shown in the reproduction, then trace URL construction and request error handling. Add a regression test with an oversized URL and repeated $select fields, and verify that the request settles by resolving or rejecting as expected.

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Description

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

I had a bug in my code that tried to request a massive url like https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/$siteId/drive/root/delta?token=$token&$select=[...], which was 16,343 characters long, mainly in the $select query param. When calling await client.api(url).get(), it never resolves or rejects but hangs forever.

Expected behavior

The request should resolve or throw an error.

How to reproduce

Call await client.api('https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/$siteId/drive/root/delta?token=$token&$select=$select').get() with a sufficiently large value for $select. Fields can be repeated in $select, in my example the select content.downloadUrl,id,webUrl,file,folder,name,lastModifiedDateTime,lastModifiedBy,createdDateTime,createdBy,size,cTag,eTag,parentReference,deleted was repeated over 100 times.

SDK Version

3.0.7

Latest version known to work for scenario above?

No response

Known Workarounds

No response

Debug output

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Configuration
  • MacOS Sequoia, Debian Bookworm

Does not appear to be specific to the configuration

Other information

The $select param should be deduplicated by the SDK. The way I ended up in this situation was I had code like this:

import {
  Client,
} from "@microsoft/microsoft-graph-client";

async function example(client: Client) {
  const siteId = "someid"
  const select = ["content.downloadUrl", "id", /*etc*/]
  const client: Client
  let cursor = ""
  
  while (true) {
    if (!cursor) cursor = `/site/${siteId}/drive/root/delta`
    const response = await client.get(cursor).select(select).get()
    cursor = response['@odata.nextLink']
    // Process data in response
    if (!cursor) break
  }
}

Eventually the select param gets so large that it causes this error

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