topic POSTMAN upload to user home results in zero byte file in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/postman-upload-to-user-home-results-in-zero-byte-file/m-p/299186#M252316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm prototyping upload of a document to the user's home directory (User Homes/{username} using Chrome's POSTMAN. The upload returns a SUCCESS status, with the node number for the file, etc., but the resulting file node contains a 0 byte stub. The ticket I'm using is for the user to whose home directory I am trying to upload.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here's what I'm sending vi POSTMAN</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Request URL: </SPAN><A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.alfresco.com/alfrescoserverip:port/alfresco/service/api/upload?alf_ticket=TICKET_ticketnum" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfrescoserverip<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />ort/alfresco/service/api/upload?alf_ticket=TICKET_ticketnum</A><BR /><SPAN>Request Method: POST</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Status Code: 200 OK</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Request Headers:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Accept: */*</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Cache-Control: no-cache</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Connection: keep-alive</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Content-Length: 1273</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary …</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Cookie: JSESSIONID=…; sessionid=…;csrftoken=…</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Host: alfrescoserverip<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />ort</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Origin: chrome-extension…</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 …</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Query String Parameters:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>alf_ticket: TICKET_ticketnum</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Request Payload:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>filedata: filename="somefile.txt" Content-Type:text/plain</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>siteid: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>containerid:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>uploadDirectory:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>description: user home upload</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>contentType: cm:content</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>thumbnails: doclib</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>overwrite: false</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>destination: workspace://SpacesStore/node_number_for_user_home_directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>username:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>majorVersion:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>And here's what I get back:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Response:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>{</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; "nodeRef": "workspace://SpacesStore/new_file_node_number_XXXX",</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; "fileName": "somefile.txt",</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; "status":</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "code": 200,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "name": "OK",</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "description": "File uploaded successfully"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I checked in the alfresco logs, but didn't see any issues. Any thoughts on what's wrong with my syntax? I will eventually want to do this operation both via a Web script and via CURL.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am running Alfresco Community Edition, version 4.0.d.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Cindy Huyser</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:44:43 GMT chuyser 2013-07-12T16:44:43Z POSTMAN upload to user home results in zero byte file https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/postman-upload-to-user-home-results-in-zero-byte-file/m-p/299186#M252316 I'm prototyping upload of a document to the user's home directory (User Homes/{username} using Chrome's POSTMAN. The upload returns a SUCCESS status, with the node number for the file, etc., but the resulting file node contains a 0 byte stub. The ticket I'm using is for the user to whose home direct Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:44:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/postman-upload-to-user-home-results-in-zero-byte-file/m-p/299186#M252316 chuyser 2013-07-12T16:44:43Z Re: POSTMAN upload to user home results in zero byte file https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/postman-upload-to-user-home-results-in-zero-byte-file/m-p/299187#M252317 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I had success this morning with uploading a document to the user space. It looks like I was missing the (empty) updateNodeRef parameter. So the final list of payload parameters should be:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>filedata: filename="somefile.txt" Content-Type:text/plain</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>siteid: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>containerid:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>uploadDirectory:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>description: user home upload</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>contentType: cm:content</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>thumbnails: doclib</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>overwrite: false</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>destination: workspace://SpacesStore/node_number_for_user_home_directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>username:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>majorVersion:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>updateNodeRef: </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:49:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/postman-upload-to-user-home-results-in-zero-byte-file/m-p/299187#M252317 chuyser 2013-07-15T13:49:43Z