How to set description in the BoxFileUpload request? - box-api

I am using the Box windows V2 SDK to upload files to my Box account using the following code:
BoxFileRequest request = new BoxFileRequest()
{
Parent = new BoxRequestEntity() { Id = "0" },
Name = attachment.Name,
Description = "This is failing to be sent..."
};
client.FilesManager.UploadAsync(request, new MemoryStream(attachment.FileContent)).Result;
Uploading the file works great. However, I can not get the description field sent to the box server. Is it possible to upload a file with a description, or do I have to call FilesManager.UpdateInformationAsync after the file has been uploaded to accomplish this? It would be nice if this was an option so I could reduce the number of API calls..

The description must be set in a separate API request after uploading the file.
We have heard reusing some of the request objects may cause some confusion on what can be done with each request. We are evaluating whether or not this should be changed

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Autodesk Forge - downloaded item has a different name

I'm using the https://developer.api.autodesk.com/oss/v2/buckets/:bucketKey/objects/:objectName endpoint to download an item (a Revit model) from BIM 360. Using this documentation. The file gets downloaded fine and the contents are correct however, after downloading, the file name is the GUID of the file (4aac519c-ab91-42a5-85c5-f023c82d4736.rvt) , not the 'displayName' of the file (my file.rvt) . I'm getting the file name like so:
var headervalue = resp.Headers.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "Content-Disposition")?.Value;
string contentDispositionString = Convert.ToString(headervalue);
ContentDisposition contentDisposition = new ContentDisposition(contentDispositionString);
fileName = contentDisposition.FileName;
I've used the same method on another project and it's working fine. The content and the file name of the file both are correct. However somehow the endpoint is behaving differently on this project.
Any pointers what could be the issue here?
I'm not sure if this is mentioned somewhere in the documentation but I don't think you should rely on the Content-Disposition of the response headers for this. If you want to get a filename for whichever object you're downloading, you should always get it from the actual item record (obtained in the 3rd step of the tutorial you linked to).

Getting "The provided image is in an unsupported format" error when trying to insert an image in a Google Slides presentation

I am trying to insert an image (PNG) in a Google Slide presentation using the Slides API. I do this by first uploading the image to the user's Drive, obtaining the url, passing that along to the Slide API via the correct request and then deleting the image file.
What used to work as of a few weeks ago:
image_url = '%s&access_token=%s' % (
drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=image_file_id).uri,
creds.token)
However, there have been changes to the Drive API, such that URLS constructed this way no longer work.
I am having difficulty figuring out the new correct URL to use here. The options as per the doc that describes the change are:
Use webContentLink -- Downloads
Use webViewLink -- View
Use exportLinks -- Export
I use code that looks like this to get these links:
upload = drive_service.files().create(
body={'name': 'My Image File'},
media_body=media_body,
fields='webContentLink, id, webViewLink').execute()
image_url = upload.get('webContentLink')
I have tried both #1 and #2 and get the following error:
"Invalid requests[0].createImage: The provided image is in an unsupported format."
I have also been receiving the following error intermittently:
"Invalid requests[0].createImage: Access to the provided image was forbidden."
I verified that I am able to download / view the image from the URLs generated in #1 and #2. I didn't try #3 since I am not trying to export to a different format.
What would be the best way to go about figuring out the correct URL to use?
From your script, I think that the reason of your issue is due to this. By this, the query parameter of access_token cannot be used. Under this situation, when image_url = '%s&access_token=%s' % (drive_service.files().get_media(fileId=image_file_id).uri,creds.token) is used, the login page is returned. By this, such error occurs. So as a workaround, how about the following flow?
Flow:
Upload a PNG file.
Publicly share the PNG file by creating a permission.
Insert the PNG file to Slides.
Close the shared PNG file by deleting the permission.
When the image file is put to the Slides, even when the permission of file is deleted, the image is not removed from the Slides. This workaround uses this.
Sample script:
For above flow, the sample script of python is as follows. Please set the variables of uploadFilename, presentation_id and pageObjectId
uploadFilename = './sample.png' # Please set the filename with the path.
presentation_id = '###' # Please set the Google Slides ID.
pageObjectId = '###' # Please set the page ID of the Slides.
drive = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)
slides = build('slides', 'v1', credentials=creds)
# 1. Upload a PNG file from local PC
file_metadata = {'name': uploadFilename}
media = MediaFileUpload(uploadFilename, mimetype='image/png')
upload = drive.files().create(body=file_metadata, media_body=media, fields='webContentLink, id, webViewLink').execute()
fileId = upload.get('id')
url = upload.get('webContentLink')
# 2. Share publicly the uploaded PNG file by creating permissions.
drive.permissions().create(fileId=fileId, body={'type': 'anyone', 'role': 'reader'}).execute()
# 3. Insert the PNG file to the Slides.
body = {
"requests": [
{
"createImage": {
"url": url,
"elementProperties": {
"pageObjectId": pageObjectId
}
}
}
]
}
slides.presentations().batchUpdate(presentationId=presentation_id, body=body).execute()
# 4. Delete the permissions. By this, the shared PNG file is closed.
drive.permissions().delete(fileId=fileId, permissionId='anyoneWithLink').execute()
Note:
I thought that from your script, you might be using google-api-python-client with python. So I proposed the sample script for python.
In this case, the scopes for using Slides API and Drive API are required. Please be careful this.
In the case of Google Apps Script, you can see the sample script at here.
References:
Upcoming changes to the Google Drive API and Google Picker API
Permissions: create
Permissions: delete
If I misunderstood your question and this was not the direction you want, I apologize.
I was running into the same error even when using the flow involving granting temporary permissions access then removing the permissions after calling .createImage() or .replaceAllShapesWithImage()
I also ran into this error when creating permissions for a folder containing those images: "Invalid requests[0].replaceAllShapesWithImage: Access to the provided image was forbidden." Not sure why the permissions are not propagating to the images...
Following Kos' comment, switching to jpg file type worked for me.
Edit:
It appears I am also required to set the scope to 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive' in order for it to work, which isn't ideal, but is sufficient for now.
Edit 2:
Nevermind it appears to be inconsistent. I am running into the permissions access error again. Deleting my token.pickle does not seem to fix either

Permanent links to thumbnails in Google Drive API

I'm using Google Drive API (PHP) to upload some photos to my Drive. When a file is uploaded, a Google_DriveFile object is returned in the response to confirm the successful transfer. It includes a field called thumbnailLink, accessible through the getThumbnailLink getter. Its content may look like this:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/dqVdU195R4_0ZtWxsJlhW1Fr2K30xa2hH3V1KV4UrTBl9QkhOSR0ZqN9HoB-TjEQv8SIJw=s220
Until today, I was sure that the link doesn't change by itself over time. However, when I tried to display a thumbnail of a photo I have on my Drive, using a cached address I keep in my local database, I got a 403 error - you can see it under the mentioned link. I asked the API for the current link to the thumbnail and it's now completely different.
It happened to me only once but for multiple files, i.e. all the files I had on my Drive suddenly got new thumbnail links.
Is there a way to quickly retrieve a thumbnail of a document (preferably, a photo) by some constant value or to be sure that it won't change? The perfect solution would be to access the thumbnail under a link that includes the document's id instead of some hash that may change.
Try this:
https://drive.google.com/thumbnail?authuser=0&sz=w320&id=[fileid]
Where:
sz is a size, where you may use as w (width), as h (height)
fileid is a file id. You may find it in "share" menu by right click in Google Drive UI.
I have gone through the API Documentation as they have provided:
Important: Thumbnails are invalidated each time the content of the file changes. When supplying thumbnails, it is important to upload new thumbnails each time the content is modified.
According to the information it means that a new Thumbnail is only generated only when the contents of the file are modifided. But in your case it is really weired thing and the contents are not changed but the thumbnail are Changed. As from documentation there is no batch process thing avaiable but another way around is available i.e. Web Hook
According to the Documentation there is web hook available i.e. Files:Watch process through which one can track the changes are made to file. Thus, it means every time contents are changed then hook would run and you can change the cache of the image thumbnail.
HTTP request can be sent to request the watching the files changing
POST https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/fileId/watch
Here fileID means the ID provided after loading the file.
In the request body, supply data with the following structure:
id ==> string (A UUID or similar unique string that identifies
this channel.)
token# ==> string (An arbitrary string delivered to the target address with
each notification delivered over this channel).
expiration# => long (Date and time of notification channel expiration,
expressed as a Unix timestamp, in milliseconds.)
type ==> string (The type of delivery mechanism used for this channel.
The only option is web_hook.)
address => string (The address where notifications are delivered
for this channel.)
# Optional.
If the contents get changed then new Thumbnail is generated and hook will notify you address and through your address you can fetch new information.
Here is another solution. Let's say we store only GDrive ID of the images or PDFs (google generate thumbs for many file types).
we can send request to gDrive to get valid thumbnail since looks like thumbs will expire even if there is no changes to the file.
In this case each thumbnail inside Angular component. If you use something else you can create array of links and iterate through it to create proper thumb links.
Here is the code:
const thumb = () => {
if (this.item.DriveId) {
this.getThumb(this.item.DriveId, this.authToken)
.then(response => {
console.log(`response from service ${response}`);
// Set thumbnail width size to 300px or any other width if needed
this.item.externalThumbnailId = response.slice(0, -3) + 300;
})
//here we can handle cases when API limit exceeded 10 req in a sec
.catch(e => {
if(e.data.error.message == 'User Rate Limit Exceeded'){
console.log('Failed to load thumb. trying one more time');
setTimeout(thumb, 1000);
} else {
console.log(e);
}
});
}
};
//call this function on component load.
thumb();
Another solution will be to write some backend script that updates thumbs in DB records.

Posting Documents to OneNote via new REST API

For some reason, any document I upload to OneNote via the new REST API is corrupt when viewed from OneNote. Everything else is fine, but the file (for example a Word document) isn't clickable and if you try and open is shows as corrupt.
This is similar to what may happen when there is a problem with the byte array, or its in memory, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I use essentially the same process to upload the file bytes to SharePoint, OneDrive, etc. It's only to OneNote that the file seems to be corrupt.
Here is a simplified version of the C#
HttpRequestMessage createMessage = null;
HttpResponseMessage response = null;
using (var streamContent = new ByteArrayContent(fileBytes))
{
streamContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document");
streamContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("form-data");
streamContent.Headers.ContentDisposition.Name = fileName;
createMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, authorizationUrl)
{
Content = new MultipartFormDataContent
{
{
new StringContent(simpleHtml,
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "text/html"), "Presentation"
},
{streamContent}
}
};
response = await client.SendAsync(createMessage);
var stream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
successful = response.IsSuccessStatusCode;
}
Does anyone have any thoughts or working code uploading an actual binary document via the OneNote API via a Windows Store app?
The WinStore code sample contains a working example (method: CreatePageWithAttachedFile) of how to upload an attachment.
The slight differences I can think of between the above code snippet and the code sample are that the code sample uploads a pdf file (instead of a document) and the sample uses StreamContent (while the above code snippet uses ByteArrayContent).
I downloaded the code sample and locally modified it to use a document file and ByteArrayContent. I was able to upload the attachment and view it successfully. Used the following to get a byte array from a given stream:
using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(stream))
{
byte[] b = br.ReadBytes(Convert.ToInt32(s.Length));
}
The rest of the code looks pretty similar to the above snippet and overall worked successfully for me.
Here are a few more things to consider while troubleshooting the issue:
Verify the attachment file itself isn't corrupt in the first place. for e.g. can it be opened without the OneNote API being in the mix?
Verify the API returned a 201 Http Status code back and the resulting page contains the attachment icon and allows downloading/viewing the attached file.
So, the issue was (strangely) the addition of the meta Content Type in the tag sent over in the HTML content that's not shown. The documentation refers to adding a type=[mime type] in the object tag, and since the WinStore example didn't do this (it only adds the mime type to the MediaTypeHeaderValue I removed it and it worked perfectly.
Just changing it to this worked:
<object data-attachment=\"" + fileName + "\" data=\"name:" + attachmentPartName + "\" />
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with the sample code!

How can I enable the file upload permission?

I'm trying to upload images generated in my Flash application to an album on Facebook. This was working earlier in the year, but revisiting the code I now get the following OAuthException:
(#324) Requires upload file
I am using the most recent version of the ActionSccript Facebook API. The setup works like this:
First I do the authentication check with PHP to ensure users have granted permission before having to wait for the Flash to load. I'm requesting the publish_stream and user_photos permissions. The access token comes back correctly.
Once the user is authenticated the Flash is loaded and performs its own initialisation, passing fileUpload=true as part of the init object:
var initObject:Object = {
channelUrl : "myChannelURL.html",
fileUpload : true
}
Facebook.init(
'myAppID',
myCallbackFunction,
initObject,
myAccessToken
);
This seems to work as expected, the callback receives the uid of the current user.
At the end of my application I POST a Bitmap object to a predetermined album:
Facebook.api(
albumID+"/photos",
onImagePost,
{
message:"",
image:new Bitmap(myBitmapData),
fileName:''
},
URLRequestMethod.POST
);
At this point Facebook returns a 400 response:
"error": {
"message": "(#324) Requires upload file",
"type": "OAuthException"
}
What more do I need to do to ensure that this permission is being included?
It turns out that this was not a permissions error at all. Since I last deployed this code Facebook have tightened up their restrictions a bit, and the fileName parameter passed as part of the api call can no longer be an empty string. Simply passing any old text as a file name fixes the problem.
Facebook.api(
albumID+"/photos",
onImagePost,
{
message:"",
image:new Bitmap(myBitmapData),
fileName:'FILE' // required to be non-empty
},
URLRequestMethod.POST
);
Im not sure if this is a solution that can be translated into the Actionscript SDK... But, with the PHP SDK there is a method inside the facebook SDK that is called setFileUploadSupport - try looking in the code for a place to set that parameter to true.