Compression Handler

A middleware component that compresses request bodies and falls back to an uncompressed body if the API doesn’t support request body compression.

Requirements

• Add Content-encoding: gzip to request headers for requests with a body.
• Compresses request bodies.
• Should the handler receive a 415 Unsupported Media Type response or a 400 Bad Request response with an OData error containing the following message Unable to read JSON request payload. Please ensure Content-Type header is set and payload is of valid JSON format. when the content-type was application/json, the handler will retry sending the request without compressing it a maximum of one time before passing on the error.
• Compression handler should be installed as a default handler by GraphClientFactory
• The compression handler should accept a CompressionOptions object with a property EnableCompression. That object can be passed when instantiating the handler, if nothing is passed a default value is created with EnableCompression: true. That object can also be passed on a per request base from the fluent-style API by the SDK used. If a value is passed for the request, it takes precedence over the value that was set with the handler. Compression is only performed when the computed value of EnableCompression is true.

Remarks

For response payload decompression, refer to the decompression handler specification.

This handler MUST be inserted BEFORE the Retry handler to avoid compressing the request payload multiple times over.

This handler is part of the Graph handlers collection and not the Kiota handler collection because of how it handles bad requests being specific to Microsoft Graph APIs.

Microsoft Graph environments which do not support request body compression yet return a 400 response code instead of 415.

Example

HTTP request with compressed body

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/microsoft.graph.sendMail HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.microsoft.com
SdkVersion: Graph-dotnet-2.0.5
FeatureFlag: 00000047
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache
Authorization: Bearer {token}
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Encoding: gzip
…compressed body….

HTTP response from Microsoft Graph when request compression is not supported

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 03:37:07 GMT

Content-Type: application/json

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000

request-id: 38b4ee5c-1168-4281-863b-920860a4eebe

client-request-id: 38b4ee5c-1168-4281-863b-920860a4eebe

x-ms-ags-diagnostic: {"ServerInfo":{"DataCenter":"Canada East","Slice":"E","Ring":"2","ScaleUnit":"001","RoleInstance":"QB1PEPF0000111E"}}

Content-Length: 313

 

{"error":{"code":"BadRequest","message":"Unable to read JSON request payload. Please ensure Content-Type header is set and payload is of valid JSON format.","innerError":{"date":"2021-12-09T03:37:08","request-id":"38b4ee5c-1168-4281-863b-920860a4eebe","client-request-id":"38b4ee5c-1168-4281-863b-920860a4eebe"}}}