Azure Assistant cannot retrieve files belong to assistant

[pannipasra]

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Hi everyone I tried to use Assistant API and I on the part of retrieve files that belong to specific assistant,

My issue is when trying to get files that belongs to assistant with RestAPI it return a 404 not found

curl --location 'https://{{MY_ENDPOINT}}.openai.azure.com/openai/assistants/{{MY_ASSISTANT_ID}}/files?api-version=2024-05-01-preview' \
--header 'api-key: {{CRED}}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'

or with this ref doc

error message

{
    "error": {
        "code": "404",
        "message": "Resource not found"
    }
}

• I made sure that the method is correct which is GET
• I have double checked the credential is correct.

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• ID: f0be8cbd-19c2-2e8e-8563-2f4783f0bb31
• Version Independent ID: d2855535-7ea2-d7c3-ad87-8e9e520e81f8
• Content: Azure OpenAI Service Assistants Python & REST API reference - Azure OpenAI
• Content Source: articles/ai-services/openai/assistants-reference.md
• Service: azure-ai-openai
• GitHub Login: @mrbullwinkle
• Microsoft Alias: mbullwin

[TPavanBalaji]

@pannipasra Thanks for your feedback! We will investigate and update as appropriate.

[AjayBathini-MSFT]

@pannipasra

MicrosoftDocs Github issue is mainly related to the document issue. I would recommend you to create a thread on the forums - Microsoft Q&A or Stack Overflow Once you post your issue on forums, it will have visibility across the community which is a better suited audience for such types of issues.

This would need one on one troubleshooting and if you have the support plan then I will suggest you to create the support requestt to engage us over one on one support request.

In case if you don't have the support plan then please create the QnA thread so we can assist you further.

We will now proceed to close this thread. If there are further questions regarding this matter, please reopen it and we will gladly continue the discussion.