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Creating File Activities

Sep 26, 2009 10:19pm Scott Apprentice 8 posts	Hello; I am able to create a Note activity successfully but File activities are more proving elusive… This works: `parameters = {‘parent’:892394, ‘data’:{‘details’:‘hello solve360’}} connection.request(“POST”, “/companies/note”, json.dumps(parameters), headers)` This fails: `parameters = {‘parent’:892394, ‘data’:{‘caption’:‘license.txt’,‘file’:‘the files content’}} connection.request(“POST”, “/companies/file”, json.dumps(parameters), headers)`

Sep 28, 2009 05:36pm Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 1823 posts	Perhaps we need to be clarify this point in the API documentation. Our file upload method supports only form-urlencoded POSTS i.e. currently JSON and XML cannot be used to upload files. While it’s probably technically possible to support the other formats they are not commonly used to transfer files.

Sep 28, 2009 05:54pm Scott Apprentice 8 posts	Do you have an example of a working post? Its not clear how the “data” part of the post should be encoded… Its currently giving me a “200 OK” with “Wrong file field” as the content…

Sep 28, 2009 07:32pm Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 1823 posts	A form sample would look something like this: `<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="https://secure.solve360.come/companies/file/"> <input type="text" name="parent"/> <input type="file" name="file"/> <input type="submit" value="OK"/> </form>` Which will post form-encoded data to the service as: `parent {parentID} file filename="{fileName}" Content-Type: {fileMimeType}` Or more verbosely something similar to: POST /companies/file/ HTTP/1.1 Host: secure.solve360.com Accept: text/xml Authorization: Basic {credentials} Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------32972041628286 Content-Length: 311 -----------------------------32972041628286 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="parent" {parentId} -----------------------------32972041628286 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="{fileName}" Content-Type: {fileMimeType} {encodedFileContent} -----------------------------32972041628286-- Connection: close

Oct 02, 2009 03:41pm Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 1823 posts	Example to upload a file from the command line using cURL: `curl -u '{userEmail}:{userApiToken}' -v -F "parent=106829" -F "file=@./test.txt;type=text/html" https://secure.solve360.com/contacts/file/`