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4 years ago

Asynchronous refresh with the PBI API, unable to locate refreshid from POST to refreshes

Hello,   I try to refresh a Power BI dataset programmatically by sending post request to PBI API endpoint: datasets/<datasetid>/refreshes.   The documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/po...
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4 years ago

Hi lbendlin,

 

That's correct and my current workaround. However I am really curious why POST does not return a location header since the documentation states:

 

The response also includes a location response-header field to point the caller to the refresh operation that was just created/accepted. Location is that of the new resource which was created by the request, which includes the refreshId.

 

 

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lbendlin
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4 years ago

of course the documentation could never be wrong...

Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod (MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt.Profile) | Microsoft Docs

 

It sure returns a System.Object . It just happens to be empty. What I think is happening is that the implementation is stripping away the headers

powerbi-powershell/InvokePowerBIRestMethod.cs at master · microsoft/powerbi-powershell · GitHub

 

You may need to reinvent the wheel and do all the HTTP calls manually to get the response headers. Might not be worth the effort.