Got "Bad Request" as parent is required using API Call in API Reference.

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Y-Sano

• July 28, 2020 02:21

Hi,

 

I want to try using the API Call in this website API reference for creating new folder

but instead I got the Bad Request saying that parameter is missing due to parent is required.

In developer mode, the console keep showing that 

 

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Request.js:37 POST https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/ 400 (Bad Request)

Is there anyway I can successfully do the API call via the API site ?  

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  dandennhardt

  • July 28, 2020 07:23

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  Hi   - You likely tried to create a folder without specifying a parent folder id. If you want to create a folder in your 'root' - i.e. the view you see when you first log in, you use id = 0.  For example:
  
  

  curl --location --request POST 'https://api.box.com/2.0/folders' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer mytoken' \
  --data-raw '{
    "name": "A New Folder",
    "parent": {
      "id": "0"
    }
  }'​

  
  I suggest you check out the Postman collection as it has many examples of properly formatted API calls
  
  https://developer.box.com/guides/tooling/postman/

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  Y-Sano

  • July 30, 2020 18:29

  Thank you for your answer. I did try setting root folder id already but it's still kept showing the 400.

   

  

   

   

   

  

   

   

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  dandennhardt

  • July 31, 2020 12:40

  Hey  - It looks like this may be a problem with our documentation site. I was able to reproduce the same error and it looks like the browser is not actually sending the parent folder id when it sends the API request. I've logged a request with our developer relations team to look into this, but in the mean time I suggest you use our Postman collection to experiment with the API.

   

  https://developer.box.com/guides/tooling/postman/

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