Google Drive API insert permission only returns id

Question

I'm using this request to grant user permission for a folder

https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/{{id}}/permissions?sendNotificationEmails=true&fields=emailAddress,id,name,role,type,value

but it returns only the id field

{ id: '0123456789876543210' } like this

How can I get all other information in response ? or, is there any BUG in Drive REST API ?

Answer 1

From the documentation here https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/permissions/list :

The return resource is in the following form:

{
  "kind": "drive#permissionList",
  "etag": etag,
  "selfLink": string,
  "items": [
    permissions Resource
  ]
}

Which means you would need to specify your query field param as

items(emailAddress,id,name,role,type,value)

Rather than:

emailAddress,id,name,role,type,value

Alternatively, you can leave the fields param out to ensure you actually have the information available. Hope that helps!