Update file - Storage | iTwin Platform

REST API Overview

Reference

Changelog

Storage

Download API definition:

Update file

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

Update file

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.

Errors

This request can return InvalidCreateFileRequest error with 422 status code. This could happen because of these reasons:

File name contains invalid characters.
File name's length is larger than 255 characters.
File could be harmful. For example, executable files are not accepted.

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.

Request body

file (update)

displayName

String

Display name of the file.

description

String

Description of the file.

Example

json

{
    "displayName": "test.txt",
    "description": "test file"
}

Response

Response 200 OK

json

{
    "file": {
        "id": "TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5pN5AQzuullIkxz5aDnDJSI",
        "displayName": "test.txt",
        "description": "test file",
        "path": "folderName/test.txt",
        "size": 8,
        "lastModifiedByDisplayName": "Bob User",
        "createdDateTime": "2020-05-03T11:05:11.0133549Z",
        "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-05-15T12:07:06.7841448Z",
        "parentFolderId": "TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5g0CIYaGZLxEozrWBCOcS_s",
        "_links": {
            "createdBy": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/accesscontrol/itwins/6959daff-27f5-4b87-96ea-9917daa3a8ff/members/1140f95b-1ba0-49d9-bbf4-b53e54d80387"
            },
            "lastModifiedBy": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/accesscontrol/itwins/6959daff-27f5-4b87-96ea-9917daa3a8ff/members/1140f95b-1ba0-49d9-bbf4-b53e54d80387"
            },
            "parentFolder": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/storage/folders/TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5g0CIYaGZLxEozrWBCOcS_s"
            }
        }
    }
}

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 422 Unprocessable Entity

Invalid request to update a file. Make sure that a valid file ID and file details were passed in.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidStorageRequest",
        "message": "The request to update file was invalid. Please see the API Reference for possible reasons."
    }
}

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

links (item)

URLs for accessing users' details and parent folder.

TableSchema

createdBy

link

URL for getting user's details who created item.

lastModifiedBy

link

URL for getting user's details who last modified item.

parentFolder

link

URL for getting the parent folder.

link

Hyperlink container.

TableSchema

href

String

Hyperlink to the specific entity.

file (response)

Retrieved file response containing file.

TableSchema

file

Full representation of the file.

file

TableSchema

String

Unique Identifier of the file.

displayName

String

Display name of the file.

description

String

Description of the file.

path

String

Absolute path to the file.

size

Integer

Size to the file in bytes.

isFileLocked

Boolean

Indicate whether the file is locked or not.

lastModifiedByDisplayName

String

Display name of the user who modified file last.

createdDateTime

Date-time

Date when the file was created.

lastModifiedDateTime

Date-time

Date when the file was last time modified.

parentFolderId

String

Unique Identifier of the parent folder.

_links

links-item

Contains the hyperlinks to users' details and parent folder.

file (update)

Model for file update.

TableSchema

displayName

String

Display name of the file.

description

String

Description of the file.

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.