Does REST API support MIME Types and Categories

From CS, you can associate a mime type with one or more category (CS Admin => System Administration => Administer MIME Types and Categories). After that, a user will be prompted with the associated category right after he/she selects a file and clicks the “Add” button. The user has to fill in the category form to complete the uploading, otherwise the file will stay in “incomplete” status and won’t be available for other users.

We want to mimic the CS behavior in our App, here we have two questions:
1) Can we call the rest api to get all associated categories for a given mime type;
2) Can we add a document to CS and let it stay in the “incomplete” status. (Posting a file to /api/v1/nodes creates document in completed status).

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Ferdinand Prantl

The answer for both questions is no, unfortunately.

Assigning a category to a document by MIME type during its creation is a feature of the classic CS UI. It works in the document adding wizard only; not in the drag'n'drop upload and programmatic ways (LAPI, SOAP WS or REST API). Propagation of categories from the parent container works in any scenario and is more reliable for categorizing a new document.

If you wanted to implement an independent UI using the same MIME type - categories configuration, you could create a REST API exposing it. The categories can be assigned during or after the document creation then.

If you wanted to create incomplete documents (without the required attributes filled), you would have to create your own REST API for this. Today it is better to design the scenario in the way, that the user can enter the mandatory attributes during the document upload. REST and SOAP WS APIs support only this way. During the document creation wizard it is a natural way too; you can enter the attribute values. The personal staging folder is usually used for drag'n'drop or unattended uploads, where you cannot provide the metadata immediately.