Reading valid Project level data using REST API in Project Online

Hello Readers !

As part of one of the Project online integration with external web application solution, found that the data which we read using CSOM APIs for Project start date, finish date and %Complete were not matched. The data what we have got in the CSOM coding was different from what we see in the Project center page. I was able to  achieve it with the ODATA Rest API call. Below is the sample code to read Project start date, Finish date and %Complete using ODATA REST API from C# code.

var projectDatesWebUri = new Uri(pwaUrl
+ "/_api/ProjectData/Tasks()?$select=TaskStartDate,TaskFinishDate,TaskPercentCompleted&$filter=(ProjectId eq guid'"
+ projectOnineGuidId + " ' and TaskIsProjectSummary eq true)");
var restResponse = await this.GetPjoRestResponseAsync(projectDatesWebUri, this.context.Credentials);

if (restResponse.Count() > 0)
{
startDate = DateTime.Parse(Convert.ToString(restResponse.FirstOrDefault()[TaskStartDateString])).ToShortDateString();
endDate = DateTime.Parse(Convert.ToString(restResponse.FirstOrDefault()[TaskFinishDateString])).ToShortDateString();
projectPercentComplete = Convert.ToString(restResponse.FirstOrDefault()[TaskPercentCompletedString]);
}

//function to execute and read REST API request.

public Task<JToken> GetPjoRestResponseAsync(Uri webUri, ICredentials credentials)
{
using (var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { Credentials = credentials })
{
handler.CookieContainer.SetCookies(webUri, ((SharePointOnlineCredentials)credentials).GetAuthenticationCookie(webUri));
using (var client = new HttpClient(handler))
{
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(webUri).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
string jsonData = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
var t = JToken.Parse(jsonData);
return t["value"];
}
}
}

Hope, this may help someone.

Thanks for reading. 🙂