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  • Bruno Pelletier

    I got the below error

    {
        "code" : "bad_request",
        "context_info" : 
        {
            "errors" : 
            [
                {
                    "message" : "Invalid value '{'. Entity body should be a correctly nested resource attribute name/value pair",
                    "name" : "entity-body",
                    "reason" : "invalid_parameter"
                }
            ]
        },
        "help_url" : "http://developers.box.com/docs/#errors",
        "message" : "Bad Request",
        "request_id" : "c59r7lhc3wmsrktn",
        "status" : 400,
        "type" : "error"
    }

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  • Rui Barbosa
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    Hi Bruno,

    I'm not sure exactly what tools you're using to upload the file, curl, postman, python SDK, etc, so I'll build the example using postman, and because this is uploading a file, I'll include the curl sample.

    Take a look at our API documentation about upload:

    curl -i -X POST "https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/content" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
     -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
     -F attributes='{"name":"Contract.pdf", "parent":{"id":"11446498"}}' \
     -F file=@<FILE_NAME>

    Consider I have an uploads folder:

    Notice the folder ID: 199908799409

    I want to upload file /Users/rbarbosa/Downloads/box-dev-logo.png to the above folder as Photo.png.

    The curl command would look like:

    curl --location 'https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/content' \
    --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer y0swqp3X7jETkkiyqRHu6zATHUT8aZJF' \
    --form 'attributes="{
      \"name\": \"Photo.png\",
      \"parent\": {
        \"id\": \"199908799409\"
      }
    }"' \
    --form 'file=@"/Users/rbarbosa/Downloads/box-dev-logo.png"'

    And the output is:

    {
      "total_count": 1,
      "entries": [
        {
          "type": "file",
          "id": "1170390912067",
          "file_version": {
            "type": "file_version",
            "id": "1274952136867",
            "sha1": "64ba1fbdc00d78945d69db3b6190be429dee5a04"
          },
          "sequence_id": "0",
          "etag": "0",
          "sha1": "64ba1fbdc00d78945d69db3b6190be429dee5a04",
          "name": "Photo.png",
          "description": "",
          "size": 8974,
          "path_collection": {
            "total_count": 2,
            "entries": [
              {
                "type": "folder",
                "id": "0",
                "sequence_id": null,
                "etag": null,
                "name": "All Files"
              },
              {
                "type": "folder",
                "id": "199908799409",
                "sequence_id": "0",
                "etag": "0",
                "name": "Uploads"
              }
            ]
          },
          "created_at": "2023-03-21T15:12:05-07:00",
          "modified_at": "2023-03-21T15:12:05-07:00",
          "trashed_at": null,
          "purged_at": null,
          "content_created_at": "2023-03-21T15:12:05-07:00",
          "content_modified_at": "2023-03-21T15:12:05-07:00",
          "created_by": {
            "type": "user",
            "id": "18622116055",
            "name": "Rui Barbosa",
            "login": "barduinor@gmail.com"
          },
          "modified_by": {
            "type": "user",
            "id": "18622116055",
            "name": "Rui Barbosa",
            "login": "barduinor@gmail.com"
          },
          "owned_by": {
            "type": "user",
            "id": "18622116055",
            "name": "Rui Barbosa",
            "login": "barduinor@gmail.com"
          },
          "shared_link": null,
          "parent": {
            "type": "folder",
            "id": "199908799409",
            "sequence_id": "0",
            "etag": "0",
            "name": "Uploads"
          },
          "item_status": "active"
        }
      ]
    }

    In this case the attributes of the request are:

    {
      "name": "Photo.png",
      "parent": {
        "id": "199908799409"
      }
    }

    name: the name of the file to be stored at box. notice it is not the same original filename (but it can be)

    parent, id: the id of the folder to where you are uploading the file.

    The file it self is uploaded using the multipart/form-data encoding, and depends on the tool you are using.

    Postman for example allows you to select a file from the file system:

    and curl just uses the --form flag.

    All of our SDK's have methods to facilitate this.

    Hope this helps, let us know.

    Best regards

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