In this article post, let us look at the way of accessing
the Office 365 calendar events programmatically using REST APIs.
In the samples shown, calendar events will be accessed from
SharePoint portal pages using two ways. One way is to use the graph API and the
other way is using the outlook API.
Outlook API vs Microsoft Graph API:
Outlook API has lot of API end points to access the mailbox
data in office 365 or other Microsoft mailbox services. It has around 11 API
subsets for accessing various components under outlook like calendar, contacts,
etc.
Microsoft Graph API, helps getting connected to multiple
Microsoft products or services. The services include outlook, teams, SharePoint,
people etc. This also helps in accessing other user information as well.
In both the approaches, the authentication happens via
Microsoft Apps. You can refer to my post, which explains the application
registration with appropriate permissions, and acquiring the access token for
the graph API using redirection URL. The same access token can be used for both the approaches.
Calendar Permissions:
In this case, the app permissions to be granted will be Calendar.ReadWrite
for application permissions.
Only API and properties differs in both the cases. Also, the
properties looks one and the same in both the approaches. But outlook API has
capitalization effect in the properties.
For example,
- The property for accessing the subject of the event using graph API is, data.value[i].Subject
- The property for accessing the subject of the event using outlook API is, data.value[i].subject
Sample:
The following two different samples shows accessing the event details of a logged in user from using graph API and outlook API.
Note: The access token needs to be retrieved using the Microsoft App authentication with the help of redirection URL, which i have explained in the previous article.
