getlistitem ignores list view filter

Question

Im using the webservice to get listitems from a list. The list has a filter on it as well as an eventlistener. The eventlistener triggers every time a new item is added to the list but it is possible that the newly added document won't show up in the filtered view.

In my request to getlistitems I specify the listname, the view name and use a query to retrieve the item using the items guid. I would expect the query to return an empty resultset when the item doesnt exist in the list view, but unfortunately it appears that the view is ignored.

Interestingly enough if I run the getlistitems query without specifying the guid I want I only get the documents specific to the view.

is there a query option or something that I can use to make sure that the list items returned when specifying a guid adhere to the filter on the view?

thanks for your help!

Answer 1

As per the MSDN documentation for query parameter

If supplied, the value of this parameter overrides either the query within the view specified by the viewName parameter or the query within the default view for the list.

So the filter criteria defined in the view will be ignored here.