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
}