Schema Extensions : "Unsupported or invalid query filter clause specified for property 'companyName' of resource 'User'." - microsoft-graph-api

Question

I'm currently building an application that requires me to retrieve users from the Graph API depending of a custom property, in that case, extoe82ql2v_test/companyName but so far, the API responded with Unsupported or invalid query filter clause specified for property 'companyName' of resource 'User'."
The request to retrieve the extension :
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/schemaExtensions?$filter=id eq 'extoe82ql2v_test'
The result :
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#schemaExtensions",
"value": [
{
"id": "extoe82ql2v_test",
"description": "Extend data for users",
"targetTypes": [
"User"
],
"status": "InDevelopment",
"owner": "d9a847ce-ca03-4779-88d6-c7e4f98297fe",
"properties": [
{
"name": "companyName",
"type": "String"
},
{
"name": "managerMail",
"type": "String"
},
{
"name": "arrivalDate",
"type": "DateTime"
},
{
"name": "expiryDate",
"type": "DateTime"
}
]
}
]
}
The request to retrieve the users depending of extoe82ql2v_test/companyName :
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=extoe82ql2v_test,givenName,surname,mail,mobilePhone,department,companyName,accountEnabled&$filter=extoe82ql2v_test/companyName eq 'test'
The result :
{
"error": {
"code": "Request_UnsupportedQuery",
"message": "Unsupported or invalid query filter clause specified for property 'companyName' of resource 'User'.",
"innerError": {
"date": "2020-07-24T20:46:51",
"request-id": "639b8131-70dd-4436-b624-88167fe105eb"
}
}
}
The same query with the Microsoft Graph .NET SDK :
var res = await _graphClient.Users.Request()
.Select($"extoe82ql2v_test,givenName,surname,mail,mobilePhone,department,companyName,accountEnabled")
.Filter($"extoe82ql2v_test/companyName eq 'test'").GetAsync()
I don't understand what the issue is as I followed what the official documentation said about filtering custom properties
Any help is greatly appreciated
Edit : Here is how $select without a $filter looks like
Request :
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=givenName,surname,mail,mobilePhone,department,companyName,accountEnabled,extoe82ql2v_test
Response :
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users(givenName,surname,mail,mobilePhone,department,companyName,accountEnabled,extoe82ql2v_test)",
"value": [
{
"givenName": "Antoine",
"surname": "D",
"mail": "antoine.d#contoso.com",
"mobilePhone": null,
"department": null,
"companyName": null,
"accountEnabled": true,
"extoe82ql2v_test": {
"#odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.ComplexExtensionValue",
"expiryDate": "2020-12-31T00:00:00Z",
"arrivalDate": "2020-07-22T00:00:00Z",
"managerMail": "antoine.d#contoso.com",
"companyName": "test"
}
}
]
}
Edit 2:
I successfully filtered the users with another custom attributes, extoe82ql2v_test/managerMail, it's progress but I still need to apply a filter on extoe82ql2v_test/companyName and make it works
Edit 3:
Filtering on extoe82ql2v_test/expiryDate and extoe82ql2v_test/arrivalDate also works, both of these attributes are useless to filter but at least I know they work. As for extoe82ql2v_test/companyName, I wonder if it is because this attribute exists in both the schema extensions and the User Graph object ?

Answer 1

I just faced the same problem and made it work by adding "$count=true" in the query parameters.
I also noticed it seems to need ConsistencyLevel=eventual in the request header.
For example:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$filter=CompanyName eq 'xxxx'&$select=id,displayName,CompanyName
Bad Request - 400 - 146ms
{
"error": {
"code": "Request_UnsupportedQuery",
"message": "Unsupported or invalid query filter clause specified for property 'companyName' of resource 'User'.",
...
}
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$count=true&$filter=CompanyName eq 'xxxx'&$select=id,displayName,CompanyName (with header ConsistencyLevel=eventual)
OK - 200 - 404ms
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(I got the hint by looking at this question Microsoft Graph API cannot filter /users by companyName?)