Thursday, October 2, 2014

Lists.asmx GetListCollections and GetListItems example

I recently had to get all items of a list as well as all lists in a SPWeb. This involved calling Lists.asmx. For the service description of Lists.asmx just go to /_vti_bin/lists.asmx

Get all lists for some SPWeb

$webUrl = 'some-web-url'

$credential = Get-Credential -Message "Enter your login for $($webUrl)"

$uri = [uri]"$($webUrl)/_vti_bin/lists.asmx"

$contentType = 'text/xml'
$bodyString = @"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soap12:Body>
<GetListCollection xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" />
</soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>
"@

$result = Invoke-WebRequest -Credential $credential -Method Post -Uri $uri -Body $bodyString -ContentType $contentType
$xml = [xml]$result.Content
$xml.Envelope.Body.GetListCollectionResponse.GetListCollectionResult.Lists.List

Get all list items for some list

$webUrl = 'some-web-url'
$listName = 'some-list-name'

$credential = Get-Credential -Message "Enter your login for $($webUrl)"

$uri = [uri]"$($webUrl)/_vti_bin/lists.asmx"

$contentType = 'text/xml'
$bodyString = @"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soap12:Body>
<GetListItems xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">
<listName>$($listName)</listName>
<viewName></viewName>
<rowLimit>5000</rowLimit>
<query>
<Query xmlns="">
<OrderBy> <FieldRef Name="ContentType" /> </OrderBy>
</Query>
</query>
<viewFields><ViewFields xmlns="" /></viewFields>
<queryOptions>
<QueryOptions xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">
<IncludeMandatoryColumns>FALSE</IncludeMandatoryColumns>
<IncludeAttachmentUrls>TRUE</IncludeAttachmentUrls>
<ViewAttributes Scope='RecursiveAll' IncludeRootFolder='True' />
<DateInUtc>TRUE</DateInUtc>
</QueryOptions>
</queryOptions>
</GetListItems>
</soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>
"@

$result = Invoke-WebRequest -Credential $credential -Method Post -Uri $uri -Body $bodyString -ContentType $contentType
$xml = [xml]$result.Content
$xml.Envelope.Body.GetListItemsResponse.GetListItemsResult.listitems.data.ItemCount
$xml.Envelope.Body.GetListItemsResponse.GetListItemsResult.listitems.data.row | Format-Table ows_LinkFilename, ows_Author, ows_Created, ows_Modified -AutoSize

I could probably use New-WebServiceProxy and skip all the SOAP envelope stuff. However, this better mimics the code that I was trying to troubleshoot.


1 comment:

  1. yeah it solved my problem of recursively fetching files and folders from sharepoint 2010 which is very conservative

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