topic Unable to add attachment to task with Activit REST API in Alfresco Archive

Unable to add attachment to task with Activit REST API

hguser — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 03:45:08 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to use rest API call to add an attachment to a task . ( attaching a file rather than giving an external url) I'm trying to do this in a webapp, so the rest call happens as jquery ajax. Following is the js function that i'm using. function addAttachment(id){ var files = document.get

Re: Unable to add attachment to task with Activit REST API

hguser — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 04:01:35 GMT

[Adding]

Also I checked with an external url and it works fine, So this has to be some issue with getting the binary content of the file, or the ajax request content.

Re: Unable to add attachment to task with Activit REST API

trademak — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:42:38 GMT

Why are you using JSON.stringify to sent a file body to the REST service?
It looks to me like the request is not correct.

Best regards,

Re: Unable to add attachment to task with Activit REST API

hguser — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:37:03 GMT

Thanks for the response Tijs. Well in order to pass the name value of the file, don't we need to enode it as JSON?

Re: Unable to add attachment to task with Activit REST API

hguser — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 04:21:33 GMT

Hi,

Got it solved, Instead of jquery, I used a form on encType multipart/form-data and sent it as a POST request. Thanks for the help!