Files Connect Repository Folder Items

To upload a file, send it in a multipart/form-data request. You can include metadata for the file in the multipart/form-data request as a JSON or XML request body. For information about how to create the multipart/form-data message, see Uploading Binary Files.

Resource

1/connect/content-hub/repositories/repositoryId/folders/repositoryFolderId/items

1/connect/communities/communityId/content-hub/repositories/repositoryId/folders/repositoryFolderId/items

Available version

32.0

The communities resource is available in version 35.0 and later.

Requires Chatter

No

HTTP methods

GET, HEAD, POST

POST is supported in version 35.0 and later.

Request parameters for GET

Parameter Name	Type	Description	Required or Optional	Available Version
page	Integer	An integer specifying a page of items. The default value is 0, which returns the first page.	Optional	32.0
pageSize	Integer	Specifies the number of items per page. Valid values are between 1 and 100. If you pass in null, the default is 25.	Optional	32.0

Response body for GET

Repository Folder Items Collection

Request body for POST

Uploads to repositories are limited to 75 MB.

Before you create an item in a repository folder, check to see which item types you’re allowed to create. Make a GET request to /connect/content-hub/repositories/repositoryId/folders/repositoryFolderId/allowed-item-types.

Root XML tag

<contentHubInputItem>

JSON example

1{
2   "itemTypeId" : "file",
3   "fields" : [
4   {
5      "name" : "name",
6      "value" : "Content Hub Simple Create Specs"
7   },
8   {
9      "name" : "description",
10      "value" : "Document explaining the various connect api endpoints required for simple create"
11   }]
12}

Properties

Name	Type	Description	Required or Optional	Available Version
fields	Files Connect Field Value Input[]	List of fields for the item.	Required to create a SharePoint file in a repository because the file name is required; otherwise optional	35.0
itemTypeId	String	ID of the item type.	Required to create a file in a repository	35.0

Response body for POST

Repository Folder Item

Example POST request

This example creates a file and uploads it to an external repository. The example shows the body parts in a multipart/form-data request. The first body part is a Files Connect Item Input request body. The second is the content of the file. For more information, see Uploading Binary Files.

1POST /services/data/v53.0/connect/content-hub/repositories/0XCxx000000002CGAQ/
2folders/folder:0Bz0nXuFg43SiflFNdFNIaUJrY2hQaHVIVHMxYVpHd2ZHeXphTW83TElzcE84RUJ2Q3Q4Rm8/items
3
4Authorization: OAuth 00DD0000000Jhd2!AQIAQC.lh4qTQcBhOPm4TZom5IaOOZLVPVK4wI_rPYJvmE8r2VW8XA.
5OZ7S29JEM_7Ctq1lst2dzoV.owisJc0KacUbDxyae
6User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0.1
7Host: instance_name
8Content-Length: 489
9Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=a7V4kRcFA8E79pivMuV2tukQ85cmNKeoEgJgq
10Accept: application/json
11
12--a7V4kRcFA8E79pivMuV2tukQ85cmNKeoEgJgq
13Content-Type: application/json
14Content-Disposition: form-data; name="json"
15
16{
17   "itemTypeId" : "file",
18   "fields" : [
19   {
20      "name" : "name",
21      "value" : "Items Sharepoint 012.png"
22   },
23   {
24      "name" : "description",
25      "value" : "This is a test file"
26   }]
27}
28
29--a7V4kRcFA8E79pivMuV2tukQ85cmNKeoEgJgq
30Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileData"; filename="items_Sharepoint_012.png"
31Content-Type: image/png
32
33...PNG...
34
35--a7V4kRcFA8E79pivMuV2tukQ85cmNKeoEgJgq--