Bad Request "ErrorExecuteSearchStaleData" in Microsoft Graph API - Search for Mails - microsoft-graph-api

Question

We are using Microsoft Graph Search API to search through our O365 emails. Since the search only allows 25 results per request for mails. (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/search-api-overview?view=graph-rest-beta#page-search-results)
We figured to work around this by batching our search request like this:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$batch
{
"requests": [
{
"url": "/search/query",
"method": "POST",
"id": "MyMails-0",
"body":
{
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": ["message"],
"query":
{
"query_string":
{
"query": "some search text"
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 25
}
]
},
"headers":
{
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
},
{
"url": "/search/query",
"method": "POST",
"id": "MyMails-1",
"body":
{
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": ["message"],
"query":
{
"query_string":
{
"query": "some search text"
}
},
"from": 25,
"size": 25
}
]
},
"headers":
{
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
},
{
"url": "/search/query",
"method": "POST",
"id": "MyMails-2",
"body":
{
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": ["message"],
"query":
{
"query_string":
{
"query": "some search text"
}
},
"from": 50,
"size": 25
}
]
},
"headers":
{
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
},
{
"url": "/search/query",
"method": "POST",
"id": "MyMails-3",
"body":
{
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": ["message"],
"query":
{
"query_string":
{
"query": "some search text"
}
},
"from": 75,
"size": 25
}
]
},
"headers":
{
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
}
]
}
This works usually well, but in some cases the API returns something like this:
{
"id": "MyMails-2",
"status": 400,
"headers":
{
"Link": "<https://developer.microsoft-tst.com/en-us/graph/changes?$filterby=beta,RemoveDeprecatedUnderscoreProperty&from=2021-12-01&to=2022-01-01>;rel=\"deprecation\";type=\"text/html\",<https://developer.microsoft-tst.com/en-us/graph/changes?$filterby=beta,RemoveDeprecatedUnderscoreProperty&from=2021-12-01&to=2022-01-01>;rel=\"deprecation\";type=\"text/html\",<https://developer.microsoft-tst.com/en-us/graph/changes?$filterby=beta,RemoveDeprecatedUnderscoreProperty&from=2021-12-01&to=2022-01-01>;rel=\"deprecation\";type=\"text/html\"",
"Deprecation": "Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:59:59 GMT",
"Sunset": "Sat, 31 Dec 2022 23:59:59 GMT",
"Cache-Control": "no-cache",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"body":
{
"error":
{
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "\r\n An exception occurred\r\n Lss call failed with status code 400. \"Exchange service returned error ErrorExecuteSearchStaleData: Please reissue the query with rowOffset = 0. The specified rowoffset is '50', but the results are stale.\".",
"innerError":
{
"date": "2022-01-25T09:58:53",
"request-id": "75def95f-a857-427d-a8b4-ee2792329e87",
"client-request-id": "75def95f-a857-427d-a8b4-ee2792329e87"
}
}
}
}
I noticed the deprecation note in the header, however I can't find anything about it. Neither about the actual exception.
What am I missing?
[workaround]
Thanks for the hint #user2250152.
This heavily reduced the issue by splitting the request into two requests, while the second is able to request more than 25 mails at a time:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$batch
{
"requests": [
{
"url": "/search/query",
"method": "POST",
"id": "MyMails-0",
"body": {
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": [
"message"
],
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "some search text"
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 25
}
]
},
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
},
{
"url": "/search/query",
"method": "POST",
"id": "MyMails-1",
"body": {
"requests": [
{
"entityTypes": [
"message"
],
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "some search text"
}
},
"from": 25,
"size": 200
}
]
},
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
}
]
}

Answer 1

The error with stale results can happen time to time.
You can decrease the number of batch requests to reduce a chance that the error with stale results will occur.
For the first page "from": 0 the max size is 25. But for the next page "from": 25 you can increase the page size to 200.
I've tested the search query with "from": 25 and "size": 200 and it returns 200 results.
Resources:
Page search results