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Wrongly defined `delta` on messages

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start with the generated users/item/messages/messages_request_builder.py definition around line 140 and compare it with the Microsoft Graph message resource documentation. Check how the messages delta request is exposed and confirm the unsupported API behavior; done means the invalid messages-level delta operation is no longer defined or is otherwise aligned with the documented per-mailfolder support.

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Description

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

We define a delta on messages (https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/blob/9542fa0b95c58822968116896048a00fe911eda4/msgraph/generated/users/item/messages/messages_request_builder.py#L140) that can be used like await client.users.by_user_id(some_id).messages.delta.get(), however the API doesn't support this (yet) and thus simply returns Unsupported request: Change tracking is not supported against 'microsoft.graph.message'.

Tracking changes on messages, according to the docs, only exists on a per mailfolder basis. message resource type

Expected behavior

Not having it defined (or get Graph API to finally support tracking).

How to reproduce

Given some GraphServiceClient client, a user or mailbox with id some_id and appropriate permissions call:

await client.users.by_user_id(some_id).messages.delta.get()
SDK Version

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Latest version known to work for scenario above?

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Known Workarounds

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Other information

Disclaimer this might as well not be a msgraph-sdk-python issue but generally wrongly defined in the msgraph-sdk. I'm reporting it here because I only checked here.

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