Odata query for outlook rest api - json

Question

How to use search and filter in the same query?
String url = "https://outlook.office.com/api/v2.0/me/messages?$filter=ReceivedDateTime ge 2016-02-22&$select=Subject,From,Body,ReceivedDateTime&$search=\"subject:(Chris Brown OR Michael Jackson)\"";
I need to find all mails with Subject having either "Chris Brown" or "Michael Jackson" and mail received date after 22nd Feb, 2016. Also it should have Subject, From, Body, ReceivedDateTime in the REST response.
Could anyone please help?
FYI - I am getting output if it has either filter or search. But when given together, I am getting a "Bad Request" error.

Answer 1

Right now this is not supported. From Use OData query parameters:
You cannot use $filter or $orderby in a search request.
So, the only way to do this is to perform a search via a query, and then filter on the client; or vice versa.
Update
In this particular case, since subject is filtrable and supposedly you only need an exact subject match (and not 'contains' for example), you can use something along the lines of:
https://outlook.office.com/api/v2.0/me/messages?$filter=(ReceivedDateTime ge 2016-02-22) and ((subject eq 'Chris Brown') or (subject eq 'Michael Jackson'))

Answer 2

To answer the original question: yes it is possible. #roman-pletnev correctly pointed out that you cannot use $filter or $orderby in a $search request. However, you can achieve the desired result using just $search.
$search="
(subject:(Chris Brown) OR subject:(Michael Jackson))
AND (received:02/22/2016..10/21/2016)
"
Note that extra linebreaks have been included for readability.
Also note that the received parameter seems to only work with a single date, or a specific range. I.e. you cannot request "everything after 02/22/2016". Instead you have to input today's date (or a future date?) as the end of the range.
received:<date>
received:02/22/2016
received:<start>..<end>
received:02/22/2016..10/21/2016
I'm not 100% sure about the date format. I don't know if it's determined by your account's locale or if it's always MM/DD/YYYY.
Other variations seem to work as well. However, the documentation for this is very bad and most of the documented syntax for "received" doesn't seem to work. I've filed a support ticket with Microsoft regarding this.
Some other documented syntax does work, for example received:today
Some documented syntax does not work, for example received:October
References:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-to-narrow-your-search-criteria-for-better-searches-in-Outlook-d824d1e9-a255-4c8a-8553-276fb895a8da
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-Mail-and-People-in-Outlook-on-the-web-for-business-88108edf-028e-4306-b87e-7400bbb40aa7
https://msonlinehelpdesk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200561417-Learn-how-to-fine-tune-email-search-results-in-Outlook-and-Outlook-Web-App-OWA-