Set List Properties By WebRequest

There are many ways in CSOM to set the list properties of a SharePoint site but there are a few properties which we can’t set directly from list object. In this blog, I will explain how to set those properties using WebRequest.

There are many ways in CSOM to set the list properties of a SharePoint site. But there are a few properties which we can’t set directly from the list object. In this blog, I will explain how to find those using the WebRequest.example:-offline client availability, major version limit, major with mino version limit.

This below-mentioned code sample will help us to set those properties which we cannot access directly from the list object.

The code block for this is as mentioned below :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using System.Net;
using System.Security;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Utilities;
using System.IO;

namespace EditListProperties
{
class EditListPropertiesByWebRequest
{
public static string HEADER_CONTENT_APP = "application/x-vermeer-urlencoded";
public static string USER_AGENT_APP = "FrontPage";
public static string MESSAGE_SUCCESS_APP = "message=successfully";
public static string MESSAGE_CONFLICT_APP = "msg=Save Conflict";
public static string ENABLE_OFFLINE_CLIENT_AVAILABILITY_APP = "&ExcludeFromOfflineClient=False";
public static string DISABLE_OFFLINE_CLIENT_AVAILABILITY_APP = "&ExcludeFromOfflineClient=True";
public static string MAJOR_VERSION_LIMIT_APP = "&MajorVersionLimit=";
public static string MAJOR_VERSION_WITH_MINOR_APP = "&MajorWithMinorVersionsLimit=";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string listName = "CopyDoc";
string username = string.Empty;
string password = string.Empty;
NetworkCredential credentials = null;
List list = null;
string query = string.Empty;

try
{
username = "userName";
password = "******";

ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext("siteUrl"); //creating ClientContext from given SharePoint Site
credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password); //creating creadential object for SharePoint site.

ctx.Credentials = credentials;
Web web = ctx.Web;
list = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(listName);
ctx.Load(list, l => l.EnableVersioning);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
catch (Exception ex) { }

try
{
//if we want to "SET OFFLINE CLIENT AVAILABILITY"
string value = string.Empty;
value = "Enable"; //We can change it to Enable or Disable accoring to requirement

if (value == "Enable") // if we want it to be enabled
{
query += ENABLE_OFFLINE_CLIENT_AVAILABILITY_APP;
}
else if (value == "Disable") // if we want it to be disabled
{
query += DISABLE_OFFLINE_CLIENT_AVAILABILITY_APP;
}

//if we want to "SET MAJOR VERSION LIMIT"
value = string.Empty;
value = "10"; //We can change it to any intiger accoring to requirement
list.EnableVersioning = true;
list.Update();
query += MAJOR_VERSION_LIMIT_APP + value;

//if we want to "SET MAJOR WITH MINOR VERSIONS LIMIT"
value = string.Empty;
value = "5"; //We can change it to any intiger accoring to requirement
list.EnableVersioning = true;
list.Update();
query += MAJOR_VERSION_WITH_MINOR_APP + value;

GetHttpWebRequest(query, credentials);

}
catch (Exception er) { }
}

#region GetWebRequest
/// <summary>
///
/// </summary>
/// <param name="query"></param>
/// <param name="credential"></param>
private static void GetHttpWebRequest(string query, NetworkCredential credential)
{
try
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(query);
request.Method = "POST";
request.Headers["Content"] = HEADER_CONTENT_APP;
request.Headers["X-Vermeer-Content-Type"] = HEADER_CONTENT_APP;
request.UserAgent = USER_AGENT_APP;
request.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
request.KeepAlive = true;

request.Credentials = credential;

using (System.IO.Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
GetWebResponse(request);
}
}
catch (Exception er) { }
}
#endregion

#region GetResponse
/// <summary>
///
/// </summary>
/// <param name="webRequest"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static string GetWebResponse(HttpWebRequest webRequest)
{
string responseString = string.Empty;
using (WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();
byte[] fileBuffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseString);
}
}

if ((responseString.IndexOf(MESSAGE_SUCCESS_APP) < 0) && (responseString.IndexOf(MESSAGE_CONFLICT_APP) < 0))
{
throw new Exception(responseString);
}
return responseString;
}
#endregion
}
}

In this blog, I have explained how you can set the properties of a SharePoint list using WebRequest. I hope this information will help you out in a few scenarios.