Post Blob¶

Post a blob to the REST service, that can then be used in subsequent operations, such as adding library items, multimedia, and importing.

If you attempt to add a blob, that already exists in the database, the request will return the existing blob id.

HTTP Request¶

POST /icweb.dll/postBlob

URI Parameters¶

None

Request Body¶

This contains the binary data for the blob.

Responses¶

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	Blob	OK
403	Not authorised	An attempt was made to upload a blob when you do not have permissions.
404.13	File exceeds maximum IIS size.	An attempt was made to upload a file larger than the IIS setting. See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms689462%28VS.90%29.aspx

Blob¶

The Blob object, contains information about the uploaded Blob.

Name	Type	Description	Optional
`Expiry`	Date Time	Date and Time the blob will expire and be removed from the server if it has not be persisted using another REST api.	No
`Guid`	string	Unique Identifier for this blob	No
`md5`	string	MD5 checksum for this blob to ensure that the server received the blob correctly, you should check this against your local md5 and if it does not match, re-post the blob using another request.	No

Example¶

Request¶

POST /icweb.dll/postBlob

Request Body¶

binary data

Response¶

{
        "expiry": "2018-11-01T00:05:13.000Z",
        "guid": "{69EA081E-84ED-4504-B15D-14BC7A020E49}",
        "md5": "cf894da06f793ed73d841c72dd0bfde3"
}

Request¶

The guid can then be used to insert a row in Repository, passing the guid for the File_Data field.

PUT /icweb.dll/bo/Repository/0

Request Body¶

{
        "UNC": "file.pdf"
        "File_Data": "{69EA081E-84ED-4504-B15D-14BC7A020E49}"
}

Response¶

{
        "rows":[{
                "Guid":"{71DEE3A8-5BD9-4651-8807-3213A67AFF4E}",
                "Repository_ID":1152,
                "Cached":false,
                "File_Checksum":"9a990adf862d59c4a21e5d12e8ef8f5c",
                "UNC":"20191122_113302.jpg",
                "File_Size":4504068,
                "RD_ID":213
        }],
        "key":96
}