Cannot get a person by its id using ms-graph people API - microsoft-graph-api

Question

I'm using the Microsoft Graph People API and when I look at the docs here you can get a person by using its id:
I use the Graph Explorer to get people with the following API call:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people?$select=id
I successfully get a list of ids.
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users...",
"#odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people?$select=id&$skip=10",
"value": [
{
"id": "ddb9e9e4-a4cc-46ee-93f4-ba135920c84a"
},
{
"id": "37136f8b-33b3-4596-a63b-d41dc8edda34"
},
{
"id": "8c13d891-bd2f-42e5-8650-450b3318f8e3"
}
]
}
Then I use one of the ids to get more info about a single person by using this call:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people/ddb9e9e4-a4cc-46ee-93f4-ba135920c84a
And I get an error:
{
"error": {
"code": "ErrorInternalServerError",
"message": "An internal server error occurred. The operation failed.",
"innerError": {
"request-id": "6e138441-5e1d-4f04-a87b-8141547cbb07",
"date": "2018-05-04T06:36:22"
}
}
}
Am I doing sth wrong ?

Answer 1

I'm also getting this error when following Microsoft's documenation.
As a workaround I added a filter.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people?$filter=id eq 'ddb9e9e4-a4cc-46ee-93f4-ba135920c84a'
Unfortunately is seems that filtering by id is not supported at this time.
If you have the persons name you can use a filter like this:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people?$filter=givenName eq 'Baris'
At the end of the day I prefer to use /users endpoint to get this type of information.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$filter=id eq 'ddb9e9e4-a4cc-46ee-93f4-ba135920c84a'
or
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$filter=startswith(givenName, 'Baris')
Hope this helps!