Creating a Job for Batches with Binary Attachments

This section describes how to use cURL to create a job for batches containing Attachment records. For more information on cURL, see Sending HTTP Requests with cURL.

To create a job using cURL:

1. Create a text file called job.txt containing the following text:
   1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   2<jobInfo xmlns="http://www.force.com/2009/06/asyncapi/dataload">
   3    <operation>insert</operation>
   4    <object>Attachment</object>
   5    <contentType>ZIP_CSV</contentType>
   6</jobInfo>

   The batches for this job contain data in CSV format so the contentType field is set to ZIP_CSV. For XML batches, use ZIP_XML instead.

   Note

2. Using a command-line window, execute the following cURL command:

   curl https://instance.salesforce.com/services/async/30.0/job -H "X-SFDC-Session: sessionId" -H "Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8" -d @job.txt

   instance is the portion of the <serverUrl> element and sessionId is the <sessionId> element that you noted in the login response. For more information about logging in, see Step 1: Logging In Using the SOAP API.

   Salesforce returns an XML response with data such as the following:

   1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   2<jobInfo
   3   xmlns="http://www.force.com/2009/06/asyncapi/dataload">
   4  <id>750D000000001SRIAY</id>
   5  <operation>insert</operation>
   6  <object>Attachment</object>
   7  <createdById>005D0000001B0VkIAK</createdById>
   8  <createdDate>2010-08-25T18:52:03.000Z</createdDate>
   9  <systemModstamp>2010-08-25T18:52:03.000Z</systemModstamp>
   10  <state>Open</state>
   11  <concurrencyMode>Parallel</concurrencyMode>
   12  <contentType>ZIP_CSV</contentType>
   13  <numberBatchesQueued>0</numberBatchesQueued>
   14  <numberBatchesInProgress>0</numberBatchesInProgress>
   15  <numberBatchesCompleted>0</numberBatchesCompleted>
   16  <numberBatchesFailed>0</numberBatchesFailed>
   17  <numberBatchesTotal>0</numberBatchesTotal>
   18  <numberRecordsProcessed>0</numberRecordsProcessed>
   19  <numberRetries>0</numberRetries>
   20  <apiVersion>30.0</apiVersion>
   21  <numberRecordsFailed>0</numberRecordsFailed>
   22  <totalProcessingTime>0</totalProcessingTime>
   23  <apiActiveProcessingTime>0</apiActiveProcessingTime>
   24  <apexProcessingTime>0</apexProcessingTime>
   25</jobInfo>

3. Note the value of the job ID returned in the <id> element. Use this ID in subsequent operations.