Exception calling "GetList" with "1" argument

Question

I am getting the following exception when I tried to GetList:

Exception calling "GetList" with "1" argument(s): "<nativehr>0x80070002</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>"
At C:\Scripts\teaCvProfileUpdate\uploadTeaCvsToSharepoint.ps1:37 char:36
+ $cvDocumentLibrary = $spWeb.GetList <<<< ("/people/User Resumes/Forms/")
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

These are the relavent 3 lines of code (powershell):

$spSite = Get-SPSite $mySiteUrl
$spWeb = $spSite.OpenWeb("/")
$cvDocumentLibrary = $spWeb.GetList("/people/User Resumes/Forms/")

Can somebody tell me why this is happening?

Thanks. :)

Solution 1

Try:

$spSite = Get-SPSite $mySiteUrl
$spWeb = $spSite.OpenWeb("people")
$cvDocumentLibrary = $spWeb.GetList("/people/User Resumes")

Solution 2

SPWeb.GetList() expects the Server Relative URL to a list. So in your example, it would be:

$spSite = Get-SPSite -Identity $mySite;
$spWeb = $spSite.OpenWeb();
$myList = $spWeb.GetList($spWeb.ServerRelativeUrl + "/Lists/MyList");

Solution 3

I ran into this same error message too. I discovered when I try to open a list from the parent/top level site using a relative URL, I encountered the error because of too many forward slashes returned. Example of the issue using Adam's code: If $mySite = "https://site.com", then ($spWeb.ServerRelativeURL + "/Lists/MyList") returns "//Lists/MyList". This isn't a valid relative URL. Remove the forward slash in front of Lists and the code below works for me.

$spSite = Get-SPSite -Identity $mySite;
$spWeb = $spSite.OpenWeb();
$myList = $spWeb.GetList($spWeb.ServerRelativeUrl + "Lists/MyList");