Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Connector Release Notes - Mule 3

Added specific operation for updating files metadata named: "File Update Metadata".

Added specific operation that allows attaching a file to a list item named: "Attach File".

Provide authentication mechanism using OKTA based federated identity.

Provide authentication mechanism using Kerberos.

Added HTTP and NTLM proxy support.

Fixed pagination issue for "List Item Query" operation.

FileQuery and FolderQuery operations are not supported when interacting with Sharepoint Online.

Logging in works correctly. Previously, under specific conditions, logging in could throw a 403 error because some cookies were missing in the login request. Now the connector correctly handles those cookies.

Added new connection strategy to allow provide STS token.

Fixing dependency versioning to avoid multiple proxy classes issue.

Fixed bug when using native query with file query operation.

Fixed SharepointFile POJO to avoid 'LinkingUrl' issues.

Support dealing with taxonomy fields.

Handling 403 due to token expiration through connector’s operations.

Usability improved when creating/updating multi-value lookup fields.

Inconsistency in relative URL path for file operations fixed.

Fixed memory issue when uploading big objects (at local files or in-memory).

Supporting object’s names (in addition to IDs) at list CRUD operations.

Allowing to use datetime values at query filters.

Added compatibility for Online and Claims authentication when using Java 8 (Mule 3.7+ only).

Added support again for older Mule (3.5+), Java 7 or greater is required for all Mule versions.

When the global redirector returned a URL containing an unencoded space character, an exception occurred during connection testing and while establishing connectivity with SharePoint online. The content of the redirect location is not required by the connector, so it is no longer followed.

Fixed an issue where the HTTP proxy settings defined for a Mule instance were not being honored by the SharePoint connector.

Fixed an issue where authenticating against sub site collections was not working.

Fixed an issue where unknown attributes in JSON responses were preventing successful de-serialization.

Fixed an issue when connecting to SharePoint online where unknown fields were causing responses to not be parsed correctly.

Fixed a compatibility issue between the connector and Studio 5.1.2 due to library version conflicts.

Renamed connector description in Studio palette to differentiate between SharePoint 2013 and 2010 versions.

Moved connector into new Select category from Standard.

SharePoint 2013 API - Broad support for the SharePoint 2013 REST API, including specific operations for Lists & List Items, and Files & Folders. Flexibility to invoke any other API method using the ResolveObject and ResolveCollection operations.

Lists & List Items - Ability to query and manipulate Lists or any List-derived type such as Document Libraries, Picture Lists, and to manage the items within those lists.

Files & Folders - Manage folders and files in any SharePoint library, including the ability to perform advanced workflow operations such as check-out, check-in, publish, unpublished, and recycle.

DataSense and DSQL Support - Full support for DataSense to expose the input and output schema of operations for entities, making it simple to discover the API during development.

Improved Test Connection Troubleshooting - Provides more robust Test Connection functionality in the connector including detailed and helpful error messages for the most common configuration and connectivity problems.

Claims Authentication - Provides support for claims-based authentication, allowing flexibility of the authentication model choice for ADFS-enabled enterprises.

NTLM Authentication - NTLM authentication is now more robust and widely compatible with more domain controller configurations.