Navigation properties missing

[1oglop1]

Hello,
I had this problem Stack Overflow
Short story: I was trying to list Users/Groups which are assigned to role in Application
and thanks to @lmazuel I was able to resolve the issue at least partially.

It turned out that Navigation properties are missing from sdk azure-graphrbac.
According to the (terrible) documentation Azure AD Graph API Resource Path

every resource has Navigation properties /{resource_collection}/{resource_id}/{property_name}

In my case it was
{tenant_id}/servicePrincipals/{service_principal_id}/appRoleAssignedTo/
where appRoleAssignedTo is the navigation property name.

[1oglop1]

I was able to resolve this partially myself. I did create models for appRoleAssigned and added new operations to service principal: role_assigned_to , maybe all Navigation properties could be converted to operations.

[lmazuel]

@1oglop1 Yes, navigation properties are definitely operations (look for "owners" for instance).
Please list the navigations properties you'd like, and we'll work with @amarzavery to update the SDK.

Thanks!

[1oglop1]

@lmazuel I noticed that code has been somehow generated therefore I did not try PR.

I would like to have navigation properties for these entities:

• Application Entity
• DirectoryObject Entity
• DirectoryRole Entity
• Group Entity
• DirectoryRole Entity
• User Entity

It would be nice to have all listed navigation properties, but in case it's not possible then most useful are operations regarding member/owner ship and application roles

[lmazuel]

@1oglop1 ownership has been added in the release I made earlier this week:

• add_owner
• list_owners

Members is already available: get_member_groups

I don't remember for Application roles, I'll take a look.
Thanks,

[lmazuel]

And yes, this code is generated from a Swagger file:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/master/specification/graphrbac/data-plane/stable/1.6/graphrbac.json

[1oglop1]

@lmazuel Perfect thanks, it seems I'm going to learn a lot of new stuff.
Btw are there any plans to support Microsoft Graph? There seems to be slightly more properties but it's still in Beta and I would like to use python instead of powershell :)

[lmazuel]

There is no plan on-board to support MS-Graph in near future mainly for the reason that the Azure Resource manager itself, which all SDK/CLI work with, has not integrated with MS-Graph yet.

You can however find many top awesome samples on using Python with the RestAPI directly made by @dmahugh from MSGraph
https://github.com/microsoftgraph/microsoft-graph-docs/blob/master/concepts/python.md

[lmazuel]

Closing, since I think the discussion is over, please re-comment if I missed something.
Thank you.

[Luminger]

Is there a specific reason why the links never got implemented? I had the exact same problem as @1oglop1 earlier today and found this issue. Judging by the date I thought I missed something in the API docs, but it actually got never implemented, why's that?

I had to resort to a hacked direct call to /users/{oid}/appRoleAssignments to get me the data I was looking for - could we get this implemented in the SDK alongside with the other related calls? I don't see a specific reason why this was omitted tbh.

Thanks!

[1oglop1]

@Luminger I'm not sure of your hack, but I extended the code manually by deriving from the parent classes. (bare in mind that parent classes were auto generated)
I'd like to share my solution but it was a closed source, I might be able to ask for it in case you really need it.