Get child terms of a particular taxonomy term using CSOM

Question

I'm having trouble with SharePoint CSOM getting child terms using Term object's GetTerms method. In PowerShell using PnP PowerShell I do this:

PS C:\> $term = Get-PnPTerm -Identity "Regions" -TermSet "Location" -TermGroup "Common"
PS C:\> $childTerms = $term.GetTerms(100)
PS C:\> $term.Context.Load($childTerms)
PS C:\> $term.Context.ExecuteQuery()

Exception calling "ExecuteQuery" with "0" argument(s): "Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
Parameter name: lcid"
At line:1 char:1
+ $term.Context.ExecuteQuery()
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ServerException

I get the same error when I do this inside ASP.NET MVC application representing remote web in my SharePoint provider-hosted add-in.

Answer 1

You can refer the code of PnP GetTerm function @ GitHub you will get better understanding of the command.

Update : Solution to your problem

I am having PnP's October 2017 Intermediate Release 2. They way you load the term object is causing problem. Follow below code it should work.

$term = Get-PnPTerm -Identity "Regions" -TermSet "Location" -TermGroup "Common"
$ctx = $term.Context
$ctx.Load($term.Terms)
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
$term.Terms ## This should list all child terms