I want to use the box API to set the tag blank

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Dan Ma

• March 31, 2021 12:12

I want to use the box API to set the tag blank, but I set the "tags": null or "tags": "" it doesnt work.
curl -i -X PUT "https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/12345" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "tags": null
     }'

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  Kourtney

  • March 31, 2021 18:51
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  Hello Dan, 

  Can you please provide some more information about the use case and what you're trying to accomplish here? By default, there won't be any tags, so setting tags to null shouldn't be necessary. Are you trying to remove tags from a file? If so, you can't do that using the file upload endpoint. You'll need to call the update file endpoint instead. 

  Best,

  Kourtney, Box Developer Advocate

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  Dan Ma

  • April 01, 2021 01:45

  Hello Kourtney,

  Thank you for your reply. yes, I want to remove the tag.I used update file endpoint, The parameters are set as follows，but still can't remove tag to null

  -d '{

  "tags": null

  }'

  -d '{

  "tags": ""

  }'

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  Kourtney

  • April 01, 2021 14:25

  If you want to remove all tags the body of your update file call needs to be: 

  {"tags": []}

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