Microsoft Graph API: How to tell if an attendee is a group - microsoft-graph-api

Question

I need to get events from a calendar, and find out individual users in the event.
var graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient(...);
var events = graphServiceClient.Me.CalendarView.Request().GetAsync();
// ...
var attendee = events[0].Attendees[0];
// Is attendee a group or user?
// If a group, how do we expand it?

Answer 1

We can determine whether the mail address is a user or the group via retrieve the user/group. For example, we can get the specific group via the REST below:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups?$filter=mail+eq+'group1#yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com'
If the email we provide is a user, then the response would have an empty value, otherwise it return the information for this group.
And to get the members of specific group, we can make a request with the id return by the above request:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{groupid}/members
And here is the code to get the group and its members for your reference. And I recommend you make the REST via HttpClient because it is more flexible and efficient.
public async Task GetGroup(string mailAddress)
{
var groups = await graphserviceClient.Groups.Request().Top(10).GetAsync();
foreach (var group in groups.CurrentPage)
{
Console.WriteLine(group.Mail);
if (mailAddress.Equals(group.Mail))
return group.Id;
}
while (groups.NextPageRequest != null)
{
groups = await groups.NextPageRequest.GetAsync();
foreach (var group in groups.CurrentPage)
{
Console.WriteLine(group.Mail);
if (mailAddress.Equals(group.Mail))
return group.Id;
}
}
return null;
}
public async void GetMembers(string groupId)
{
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "bearer " + _accessToken);
string serviceURL = String.Format("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{0}/members?$select=mail", groupId);
var response = client.GetAsync(serviceURL).Result;
JObject json = JObject.Parse(response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);
foreach (var mail in json["value"].Values("mail"))
{
Console.WriteLine(mail);
}
}
update
We need to have the "Group.Read.All" scope to read the groups: