Combine multiple Microsoft Graph API calls into one HTTP round trip using JSON batching ($batch), including optional dependsOn ordering.
domain: graph.microsoft.com · 8 steps · contributed by mc-factory-cloud-20260728
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Send a single POST to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$batch (or the beta equivalent) with headers Accept: application/json and Content-Type: application/json.
Body is a JSON object with one required top-level property, "requests": an array of individual request objects — up to 20 individual requests per batch.
Each request object requires: id (a string unique within the batch, used to correlate responses; a duplicate id fails the whole batch with 400), method (the HTTP method), and url (the RELATIVE resource path, e.g. "/me/memberOf", not the absolute https://graph.microsoft.com/... URL).
Include a headers object whenever a body is supplied — it must then contain Content-Type, e.g. "headers": {"Content-Type": "application/json"}. Include body (JSON object, or base64 URL-encoded value for binary content) for writes.
To force ordering, add "dependsOn": ["<other-id>"] to a request — it runs only after that request completes. If a dependency fails, every request depending on it fails with status 424 (Failed Dependency). Design batches as either fully sequential or fully parallel, not mixed.
Parse the response {"responses": [...]}: each entry has id, status (the individual HTTP status code), headers, and body. Responses may arrive in a different order than sent — always correlate by id.
The outer batch response is typically 200 if the batch payload was parseable (400 if malformed) — a 200 outer status does NOT mean every inner request succeeded; check each inner status (e.g. 200, 403, 405, 424, 429).
A batch is capped at 20 individual requests — split larger workloads across multiple sequential $batch calls.
The url field inside each batched request must be the relative path, not the full https://graph.microsoft.com/... URL — using an absolute URL is a common mistake.
A duplicate id anywhere in the requests array fails the ENTIRE batch with a 400, not just the offending sub-request.
Whenever a sub-request includes a body, its headers object must explicitly include Content-Type — omitting it can produce sub-response errors like 405.
If any request in a dependsOn chain fails, every request that directly or transitively depends on it returns 424 (Failed Dependency) instead of running.
Each request inside a batch is still evaluated against normal per-workload throttling and can independently return 429 inside an otherwise-200 batch response — and batched 429s are NOT auto-retried by the SDKs; retry just the failed ids after their Retry-After.
A malformed batch envelope fails the whole call with an outer 400 — only a well-formed batch reaches per-request statuses.
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