Change in Office Online File URL property?

Question

When testing our integration with Office Online this morning, it appears something has changed within the /add(<relative_url> endpoint.
Originally, the URL property of that response gave me a relative path that I could plug into getfilebyserverrelativeurl(<relative_url>). The response I'm now getting back is an absolute path that includes the SharePoint domain.
According to the documentation:
Url
String
R
Yes
Gets a value that specifies the relative URL of the file version based on the URL for the site or subsite.
The URL property of a File object is generally suppose to be a relative URL -- according to the FileVersion object.
Can someone confirm this change? And whether or not the URL property is suppose to be absolute or relative? 

Answer 1

Hi,
If you want to use the getfilebyserverrelativeurl method to get the all files from a folder in document library, we can use the relative URL of folder.
Example, we can get all files from the FolderA in Shared Documents(default document library) using this:
https://sharepoint/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/Shared%20Documents/FolderA')/files
More information:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/anavijai/how-to-get-all-the-files-from-the-folder-in-sharepoint-2013/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.client.web.getfilebyserverrelativeurl(v=office.15).aspx
Thanks,
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support
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