Does Create document in /v2/nodes API support multipart/form-data?

Akihiko Sano

Hi,
I am having trouble uploading files with the Content Server 22.2 REST API.

https://developer.opentext.com/ce/products/extendedecm/apis/contentserver222restapi
POST /v2/nodes
Create document
required fields: type, parent_id, name, (file or upload_key)
defaults: type = 144
Please tell me about the above.

Is the Content-Type request header of this API only supported by application/x-www-form-urlencoded?
Will multipart/form-data be supported as described in below(*)?

Upon verification
application/x-www-form-urlencoded resulted in an error
It succeeded for multipart/form-data.
For application/x-www-form-urlencoded
I understand that it is assumed that the OpenText Extended ECM server can reference files using UNC paths by SMB, etc.
In other words, if the file cannot be referenced from the ECM server,
The understanding is that I need to send the contents of the file I want to upload directly to the API with multipart/form-data.

https://developer.opentext.com/ce/products/extendedecm/documentation/contentserverrestapiquickstartguide/2
　name: Content-Type
　value: application/x-www-form-urlencoded OR application/multpart/form-data

https://forums.opentext.com/forums/developer/discussion/301993/uploading-files-in-rest-api-fails-in-cs-20-4-build-16-2-14-1329
　formData.Headers.ContentType.MediaType = "multipart/form-data";

appuq

The question is not clear from your posting.Livelink(OTCS) is a web cgi application that has supported file uploads for at least 30 plus years, it always was multipart-form data. We all fake the multi-part form data using Postman and write Java or other code using the Postman snippet. Is that what you want to do as well?

Typically in modern restapi JSON is an accepted standard and OpenText has maintained it is too much work for them to change OTCS(primarily because livelink is built on a cgi) to accept JSON .

this example @Ferdinand Prantl shows you how he does it, I also have done some examples in Java and others probably C#

https://forums.opentext.com/forums/developer/discussion/303643/error-while-uploading-document-using-restapi

I wrote this in my blog a while back when I had to do some restapi in a Java application and i think that is the link I posted here called https://appukili.wordpress.com/2022/04/17/take-some-rest/

If you intend to consume files in an SMB/CIFS path then only using Oscript or an application that OT wrote called "Object Importer" can you do it otherwise OT expects the file to come via a webserver and probably in a path defined by upload directory.