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Create a Job for Batches with Binary Attachments

You can use cURL to create a job for batches containing Attachment records.

For more information, see Walkthrough Sending HTTP Requests with cURL.

Create a text file called job.txt containing this 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 or JSON batches, use ZIP_XML or ZIP_JSON, respectively.

Note

Using a command-line window, execute this cURL command

curl https://instance.salesforce.com/services/async/67.0/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: Log 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>67.0</apiVersion>
21  <numberRecordsFailed>0</numberRecordsFailed>
22  <totalProcessingTime>0</totalProcessingTime>
23  <apiActiveProcessingTime>0</apiActiveProcessingTime>
24  <apexProcessingTime>0</apexProcessingTime>
25</jobInfo>

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

Bulk API 2.0 and Bulk API Developer Guide

Create a Job for Batches with Binary Attachments