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List owners of an application

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Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Retrieve a list of owners for an application that are directoryObject types.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet
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Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Application.Read.All Application.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Application.Read.All Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy, Application.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

Important

When an application queries a relationship that returns a directoryObject type collection, if it doesn't have permission to read a certain resource type, members of that type are returned but with limited information. For example, only the @odata.type property for the object type and the id is returned, while other properties are indicated as null. With this behavior, applications can request the least privileged permissions they need, rather than rely on the set of Directory.* permissions. For details, see Limited information returned for inaccessible member objects.

HTTP request

You can address the application using either its id or appId. id and appId are referred to as the Object ID and Application (Client) ID, respectively, in app registrations in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

GET /applications/{id}/owners
GET /applications(appId='{appId}')/owners

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $count, $expand, $filter, $orderby, $search, $select, and $top OData query parameters to help customize the response. Some queries are supported only when you use the ConsistencyLevel header set to eventual and $count. For more information, see Advanced query capabilities on directory objects.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and collection of directoryObject objects in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request that uses the appId alternate key to query the owners of an application.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/applications(appId='bbec3106-565f-4907-941e-96b4dbfef21c')/owners

Response

The following example shows the response. It shows only the id property as populated while other properties as null. This is because the caller did not have permissions to read users in the tenant.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#directoryObjects",
    "@microsoft.graph.tips": "Use $select to choose only the properties your app needs, as this can lead to performance improvements. For example: GET applications(appId=<key>)/owners?$select=deletedDateTime",
    "value": [
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
            "id": "ce4770b3-70b2-4a38-a242-76631e9f7408",
            "businessPhones": [],
            "displayName": null,
            "givenName": null,
            "jobTitle": null,
            "mail": null,
            "mobilePhone": null,
            "officeLocation": null,
            "preferredLanguage": null,
            "surname": null,
            "userPrincipalName": null
        },
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
            "id": "858a9c90-38b3-4e78-b915-234aece712c4",
        },
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.user",
            "id": "7585d967-f300-43de-b817-7119a6404c5e",
        }
    ]
}