Office365-rest-python-client

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- `requests_ntlm` is included as an optional dependency
- `README.md` broken links resolved

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- improvements for SAML-based claims authentication, kudos to wreiner for the implementation and nsmcan for the proposal 297, 272
- support for and % in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business by kraptor 300
- support for optional arguments for `FileCollection.create_upload_session` method by beliaev-maksim 289
- migration from `adal` library to `msal` as a mandatory dependency 296
- improved support for `sharepoint` namespace, new types and methods (`Tenant`, `ViewField`, `ContentType` classes)
- migration from Outlook API v1.0 to Microsoft Graph. Note: `OutlookClient` is decommissioned and no longer available

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- Migration from [Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)](https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-python) to use the [Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)](https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-python) library as a _mandatory_ dependency
- Bug fixes: 278 - escape special characters in xml
- SharePoint API: support for creating fields from schema xml, methods: `FieldCollection.create_field_as_xml`, `FieldCollection.create_taxonomy_field`

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- Improved support for [SharePoint API Batch requests](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/make-batch-requests-with-the-rest-apis)

Here is the comparison of two approaches, in the first example _update operation_ is submitted to server per every list item, while in the second one multiple list item update operations are submitted via a since (batch) request:



list_tasks = ctx.web.lists.get_by_title("Tasks")
items = list_tasks.items.get().execute_query()
for task_id, item in enumerate(items):
task_prefix = str(randint(0, 10000))
item.set_property("Title", f"Task {task_prefix}")
item.update()
ctx.execute_query() <- update operation is submitted to server per every list item




list_tasks = ctx.web.lists.get_by_title("Tasks")
items = list_tasks.items.get().execute_query()
for task_id, item in enumerate(items):
task_prefix = str(randint(0, 10000))
item.set_property("Title", f"Task {task_prefix}")
item.update()
ctx.execute_batch() <- construct a single (batch) for all list items and submit to server


- API improvements for [Fluent interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface#Python), for example, instead:


list = client.web.lists.get_by_title(list_title)
list.delete_object()
client.execute_query()


list delete operation could be constructed and submitted to a server in a more compact manner:


client.web.lists.get_by_title(list_title).delete_object().execute_query()



- SharePoint API `Changes` namespace improvements (259), here is the list of operations:

- `Site.get_changes`
- `Web.get_changes`
- `List.get_changes`
- `ListItem.get_changes`




- SharePoint API `RecycleBin` entity class and operations

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Finally the initial support for [SharePoint API Batch requests](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/make-batch-requests-with-the-rest-apis) has been introduced. All insert/update/delete operations are supported.

The following example how current user and web objects could be retrieved by grouping two operations and submitting it as a single request to the server:


client = ClientContext(site_url).with_credentials(user_credentials)
current_user = client.web.currentUser
client.load(current_user)
current_web = client.web
client.load(current_web)
client.execute_batch()


which offers a new way of improving the performance.

Among another improvements and changes:

- improved support for Office365 auth with ADFS by liuliqiu

- style enforcement (`flake8`), code formatting (`isort`) configuration by domdinicola

- `ClientRuntimeContext.execute_query_retry` method which implements [Retry pattern](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/retry)

Mainly unit testing bug fixes for Travis CI