Stupid question - uploading doc via REST using Postman

HF_PSPC · 2022-02-22T20:58:26+00:00

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Hi,

Normally with a REST upload, you would have a file parameter of type file (not text) and then Postman would automatically convert it into a MIME encoded stream. With the REST API, when it's asking for a body consisting of JSON which represents the type, the name, the parent_id, and the file, the file is supposedly the path to the file. When I do this, i.e.

{

"type": 144,

"parent_id": "{{attachmentFolderId}}",

"file": "C:\users\f*****\Documents\simple.txt"

}

I get this error:

It seems to be barfing on the file parameter. If I am using Postman to test this, what should the payload look like?

Thanks in advance

-Hugh

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Jonathan_Tien

Hope this helps

Appu Nair

As @Jonathan_Tien shows the Body of your request should contain a parm called body and the File should be a file object. If you turn that postman code to Jquery or XHR it will turn into something like this .OT also delivered a psotman collection a while back based on commonly used things :)

var params = {
 name: 'example',
 type: 144,
 parent_id: 123456
}
var content = new File(['example'], 'example.txt', { type: 'text/plain' })
var formData = new FormData()
formData.append('body', JSON.stringify(params))
formData.append('file', content)
$.ajax({
 method: 'POST',
 url: '.../api/v2/nodes',
 data: formData,
 contentType: false,
 processData: false,
 headers: { otcsticket: '...' }  ////////// or otdsticket
}).then(function (response) {
 console.log('success:', response)
}, function (jqxhr) {
 console.log('failure:', jqxhr.responseJSON)
})

HF_PSPC

I see what I'm missing. I need both a file and body as parameters. I was trying to embed the file into the body JSON string.

Silly me

-Hugh