how to create asset by API

Sam Wu

Hi All,

I need to perform a test for creating assets in Postman, but after making a POST request, I receive the following error in the response:

"message": "Invalid parameter value was specified.
"debug_message": "Asset data should be specified.",

I reference this page but I don't know what I did wrong.

Below are the parameters I sent.

POST https://xxxx/otmmapi/v6/assets

key value

files I used text file for test.

asset_representation {"parent_folder_id": "****","import_template_id":"****"}

manifest {"files": [{"fileName": "test.txt","title": "test","description": "A test text file"}]}

Could someone please help me with this?

Sam

Govinda Raju Mekala

Try this ,it's a working example

--form 'parent_folder_id="949832953fd446256565a8f3f4ead29684d6eb0c"' (OTMM Folder ID -Optional parameter)
--form 'import_job_id="49557"' (import Job id created in previous Step)
--form 'manifest="{"upload_manifest":{"master_files":[{"file":{"file_name":"pexels-cup-of-couple-8472308.mp4","file_type":"video/mp4"}},{"file":{"file_name":"7158392-00028400480611_C2C1-S.JPG","file_type":"image/jpeg"}}]}}"'
--form 'asset_representation="{"asset_resource":{"asset":{"metadata":{"metadata_element_list":[]},"metadata_model_id":"OTMM.MODEL.CONTENTSTACK","security_policy_list":[{"id":79}]}}}"'
--form 'import_template_id="140382a734e5da7a642e9ee0ed45f9b9a7740cfd"' //If we pass this parameter we can skip metadata_model_id & security_policy_list in asset representation.

And i forget to ask,How are you handling the authetication.

Govinda Raju Mekala

Try this ,it's a working example

--form 'parent_folder_id="949832953fd446256565a8f3f4ead29684d6eb0c"' (OTMM Folder ID -Optional parameter)
--form 'import_job_id="49557"' (import Job id created in previous Step)
--form 'manifest="{"upload_manifest":{"master_files":[{"file":{"file_name":"pexels-cup-of-couple-8472308.mp4","file_type":"video/mp4"}},{"file":{"file_name":"7158392-00028400480611_C2C1-S.JPG","file_type":"image/jpeg"}}]}}"'
--form 'asset_representation="{"asset_resource":{"asset":{"metadata":{"metadata_element_list":[]},"metadata_model_id":"OTMM.MODEL.CONTENTSTACK","security_policy_list":[{"id":79}]}}}"'
--form 'import_template_id="140382a734e5da7a642e9ee0ed45f9b9a7740cfd"' //If we pass this parameter we can skip metadata_model_id & security_policy_list in asset representation.

And i forget to ask,How are you handling the authetication.

Sam Wu

Hi Govinda Raju Mekala,

Thanks for your help. Authetication works and your example works, but I'm running into other issues. The images I uploaded successfully were marked as "NOT SPECIFIED".

Below are the parameters I sent.

--form 'parent_folder_id="****"'
--form 'manifest={"upload_manifest":{"master_files":[{"files": [{"file_name": "test.jpg","file_type": "image/jpeg"}]}]}}
--form 'asset_representation={"asset_resource":{"asset":{"metadata":{"metadata_element_list":[]},"security_policy_list":[{"id":10}]}}}
--form 'import_template_id="****"'

Do I need to pass more parameters?

Sam