The query string “accountName” is missing or invalid

Question

I'm trying to call the `getpropertiesfor? SharePoint Online's REST endpoint.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn790354.aspx#bk_PeopleManagerGetPropertiesFor

I'm logged in and am just pasting the url into the browser. I am web encoding the string parameter @v. So my complete URL looks like this.

https://domain.sharepoint.com/_api/sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager/getpropertiesfor(@v)?@v='i%3A0%23.f%7Cmembership%7Cuser.name%40domain.com'

Still I only get the error message.

The query string "accountName" is missing or invalid.

Any pointers on what's wrong? If I call an endpoint without parameters, like the /sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager.gettrendingtags endpoint it works and I get a correct response.

Answer 1

I also had the same issue but resolved it finally;

Resolution: all the characters should be encoded after @v= (as below)

@v=%27i%3A0%23.f%7Cmemb‌​ership|user@domain.c‌​om%27

Full URL will be: http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetPropert‌​iesFor(accountName=@‌​v)?@v=%27i%3A0%23.f%7Cmemb‌​ership|user@domain.c‌​om%27

Answer 2

As Mx writes in the comment the url formatted as shown here works.

http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetPropert‌​iesFor(accountName=@‌​v)?@v='i:0%23.f|memb‌​ership|user@domain.c‌​om'

Still not sure where the "accountName=@v" addition comes from though. In the documentation (see link in first post) there's no mentioning you have to specify "accountName=", just that you have to supply your account name as a parameter.

Answer 3

Here's something that worked for me. After you encode the account name, you still need to replace ':' and '#'.

var encodeAccountName = encodeURI(accountName);
encodeAccountName = encodeAccountName.replace(':', '%3A');
encodeAccountName = encodeAccountName.replace('#', '%23');

In the url you also need to replace '@' in the ?@v= to ?%40v=

'/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/getuserprofilepropertyfor(accountname=@v, propertyname=\'Department\')?%40v=\'' + encodeAccountName + '\''

This is working as this time of writing.