Update file content - Storage

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Storage

Download API definition:

Update file content

POST https://api.bentley.com/storage/files/{fileId}/updatecontent

Update file's content

Notes

File update is three steps operation. This request creates hyperlinks for file content update and confirmation. Next two requests need to be executed by using links from the response. Maximum file size to upload with single request is 256 MiB. If bigger files needs to uploaded there are possibility to use Azure libraries or by uploading file with multiple requests.

uploadUrl is required for file upload. Upload can be done by sending http request and specifying x-ms-blob-type header to BlockBlob.
completeUrl should be used to confirm file upload and it is final request for file creation.

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have storage_write permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

Request

Request parameters

fileId

template

Yes

File Id

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with storage:modify or itwin-platform scope

Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Response

Response 202 Accepted

Accepted

json

{
    "_links": {
        "completeUrl": {
            "href": "https://api.bentley.com/storage/files/TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5pN5AQzuullIkxz5aDnDJSI/complete"
        },
        "uploadUrl": {
            "href": "https://projectshareprodeussa01.blob.core.windows.net/azuresqldbecpluginstorage/ProjectShare/File/b6145b7f-fee9-4a13-b1e4-5d061970373e?sv=2017-04-17&sr=b&sig=4NfdEriAONQhbHGkrTAL4bNMzjW8Qm5l%2FoEPiSQl%2BPo%3D&se=2020-10-19T15:12:51Z&sp=rw&rscd=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22test.txt%22&userid=b905387c-a685-4d27-aab7-468c9ff0c9a6"
        }
    }
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 404 Not Found

File cannot be found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "FileNotFound",
        "message": "Requested file is not available."
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

Definitions

link

Hyperlink container.

TableSchema

href

String

Hyperlink to the specific entity.

file-upload

Model for file upload.

TableSchema

_links

links-upload

Hyperlinks for further file upload and confirmation.

links (upload)

Hyperlinks for further file upload and confirmation.

TableSchema

uploadUrl

link

URL for uploading file content.

completeUrl

link

URL for completing file creation.

Error

Contains error information.

TableSchema

code

String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message

String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target

String

The target of the error.

Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

TableSchema

error

Error

Error information.