In one of my previous post I had demonstrated how to, Download Large Files from SharePoint Online. While the file download is working perfectly fine, but, I was constantly getting the following error while trying to load/access it’s properties,
Value was either too large or too small for an Int32
In the above screenshot, I have applied a GroupBy setting on a SharePoint View. I needed the same exact values in my application through JSOM. However, all of the online examples, that I came across, were of retrieving all the ListItems of a SharePoint List. You can either retrieve all the items at once or in batches, but there seems to be no provision of applying grouping or aggregation on the ListItems through code!
Somehow, I wasn’t convinced of this and was vehemently against this idea of pulling all the data on client-side first, thereafter applying grouping and aggregations.
I had this code, https://realmpksharepoint.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/get-webpart-page-of-a-sharepoint-site-using-web-services-c/ which I was using to download the html content of a SharePoint page along with all the web parts. The importance of this method is that it eliminates the external file references, so in the response, you will get the schema of all the web parts of that page only.
The code was working fine until recently, when it suddenly stopped working and I started to receive the error, 403 Forbidden.
In my previous post, I had explained how to upload large files up to 10 GB to SharePoint Online. This is as per the new revised upload limit. The upload operation, as we know, is actually incomplete without download. I mistakenly, assumed that the previous code for file download will work for the latest larger files as well. But, just like I had to rewrite the upload code to accommodate this new limit, file download also needed a complete makeover. I initially tried the following ways with no success.
Microsoft has now increased the SharePoint per file upload size limit to 10 GB. Here’s a full list of SharePoint Online limitations. Now, this has thrown up a number of new challenges for this upload to be carried out through code.
Piyush K Singh 