How to read text from an Excel table range using MS Graph? - excel

Question

I have previously been reading the text from a table in excel using the following URL:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root:/my-folder%5Cmy-workbook.xlsx:/workbook/worksheets('MyWorksheet')/tables('MyTable')/range/text
Now that is giving me a 200 response with this content:
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.Json"
}
I can access the range using the same URL but without the \text segment. For example the requests to the following URL
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root:/my-folder%5Cmy-workbook.xlsx:/workbook/worksheets('MyWorksheet')/tables('MyTable')/range
result in:
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#workbookRange",
"#odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.workbookRange",
"#odata.id": "/users('xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx')/drive/root/workbook/worksheets(%27%7Bxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx%7D%27)/tables(%2719%27)/range()",
"address": "MyWorksheet!C6:BB18",
"addressLocal": "MyWorksheet!C6:BB18",
"cellCount": 676,
"columnCount": 52,
"columnHidden": false,
"columnIndex": 2,
"formulas": [ ... ],
"formulasLocal": [ ... ],
"formulasR1C1": [ ... ],
"hidden": false,
"numberFormat": [ ... ],
"rowCount": 13,
"rowHidden": false,
"rowIndex": 5,
"text": [
[
"Text",
"From",
"The",
"Range",
...,
]
]
"values": [ ... ],
"valueTypes": [ ....]
}
The text property is present and contains the expected data.
The MS Graph documentation includes a text property on the range resource.
As stated above, I believe this was working earlier, so I'm assuming this is due to some bug / change / limitaion in MS Graph.
Can anyone advise how to read the text from that table range directly (and/or why I am getting that response)?

Answer 1

Text is a property of the microsoft.graph.workbookRang, but not an endpoint. I'm not sure how/if /range/text could have worked in the past but I wouldn't have expected it to.
As for returning just the text, you can use the $select query parameter:
/me/drive/root:/{path}:/workbook/worksheets('{id}')/tables('{id}')/range?$select=text