Documentatie/Upload-a-file.md

Uploading a file

This page documents how to upload a file through the FarmMaps API. The FarmMaps file upload API follows the Google Drive API loosely. Files smaller than 2 MB are uploaded in a single part, larger files need to be split into parts of 1 MB.

The workflow for uploading a file is as follows:

• Register the file for upload.
• Uploading the file chunks
• Downloading the file to check (optional)

Prerequisites

• To be able to perform requests, make sure you have an access token.

Registering the upload

Before a file can be uploaded it needs to be registered. Files smaller than 2 MB can be uploaded in one chunk. Bigger files need to be uploaded in chunks of 1 MB. The uploaded files are structured in a hierarchy, so we'll specify a parentCode to identify its parent. We'll first retrieve this parentcode using a GET request to the "my_drive" (root)folder.

Request
Replace <acces token> with your actual token.

GET https://farmmaps.awacc.nl/api/v1/folders/my_drive? HTTP/1.1
Host: farmmaps.awacc.nl
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <access token>

Response
The response will be something similar to:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:57:07 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: br
Vary: Accept-Encoding

{
    "url":"/api/v1/folders/f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES",
    "code":"f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES",
    "name":"My Drive",
    "created":"2019-09-25T19:39:33.841835",
    "updated":"2019-09-25T19:39:33.841835",
    "itemType":"ROOT_FOLDER",
    "size":0,
    "state":0,
    "thumbnail":false
}

So the parentcode we need is "f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES"
We can now register the file. In the request to register the upload, we specify its parent (parentCode),
the filename (name), and the size in bytes (size) in the body.

Request

POST /api/v1/file HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <access token> 
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Host: farmmaps.awacc.nl
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 115

{
   "parentCode": "f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES",
   "name": "example.csv",
   "size": 67351
 }

Response
If all went well, we should recieve a response with status code 201, indicating that a new file was registered.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:08:56 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: br
Location: /api/v1/file/147357a252044a098788492729c4d551
Vary: Accept-Encoding

{
    "code":"147357a252044a098788492729c4d551",
    "chunks":1,
    "parentCode":"f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES",
    "name":"example.csv",
    "size":67351,
    "chunkSize":67351,
    "data":{}
}

For files larger than 2 MB we also need to specify the chunksize (chunkSize):

POST /api/v1/file HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <access token> 
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Host: farmmaps.awacc.nl
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 147

{
   "parentCode": "f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES",
   "name": "sampledata2.csv",
   "size": 7265743,
   "chunkSize": 1048576
 }

Response
The response now shows the amount of chunks that we'll need to send ("chunks":7).

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:27:05 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: br
Location: /api/v1/file/f319e9c6bfe3493cba1a888f6292f00a
Vary: Accept-Encoding

{
    "code":"f319e9c6bfe3493cba1a888f6292f00a",
    "chunks":7,
    "parentCode":"f25d8765a1cd407cb235961c73c268cf:USER_FILES",
    "name":"sampledata2.csv",
    "size":7265743,
    "chunkSize":1048576,
    "data":{}
}

Uploading the chunks

The upload URL contains the registration code, and ends with the chunk number.
The body of the request contains the data of the chunk. For uploading the first chunk, we can use the request below. Subsequent chunks can be uploaded by increading the chunk number at the end and adding the next chunk in the body.

Request

POST /api/v1/file/9c27d92fd44e43cf975275a2bec5c5f5/chunk/1 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <access token>
Cache-Control: no-cache
Host: farmmaps.awacc.nl
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--------------------------272838473781934324854095
Content-Length: 1048788
----------------------------272838473781934324854095
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Chunk"; filename="sampledata2_1.csv"

<sampledata2_1.csv>
----------------------------272838473781934324854095--

Response
The response should show a 200 status code, confirming that the chunk was recieved succesfully:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:07:19 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache

When uploading the final chunk of the file a 201 status code should be returned.
This indicates all chunks have been uploaded. The file will now be ready for further processing.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:21:01 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: br
Location: /api/v1/item/9c27d92fd44e43cf975275a2bec5c5f5
Vary: Accept-Encoding

Downloading the uploaded file

To verify that your file was uploaded and re-assembled correctly you can download the file using a simple GET request.

GET /api/v1/items/9c27d92fd44e43cf975275a2bec5c5f5/data HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <acces token>
Cache-Control: no-cache
Host: farmmaps.awacc.nl
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive

This will return the file as an attachment:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:05:25 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sampledata2.csv; filename*=UTF-8''sampledata2.csv

Troubleshooting

Status code	Description
200	Chunk was uploaded
201	All chunks from file have been uploaded
400	Error: the chunk number exceeds the total number of chunks calculated earlier
401	Error: not authenticated
404	Error: the chunk cannot be added to a registered file (not found)