Dropbox upload

I'm trying to work out how to upload a file to dropbox. I've managed to get as far as authorising but I can't for the life of me figure out what the upload process is.

If I'm missing something obvious my apologies for being a bit of an oauth newb.

thanks.

I should add, I'm using this code:

$success = $client->CallAPI(
'https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files_put/auto', 'POST',
array(
'FileName' => $PathToImage
),
array(
'FailOnAccessError'=>true;
),
$user
);




And this is the error:


it was not possible to access the API call: it was returned an unexpected response status 400 Response: {"error": "Upload failed. Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded must not be empty and not one of ('application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'multipart/form-data')"}

For file uploads you need to tell which of the parameters are files using the "Files" parameter. Take a look at the documentation for the details and let me know if you still have doubts.

Thanks. Now I have:

$success = $client->CallAPI(
'https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files_put/auto', 'PUT',
array(
'source' => $pathToImage
),
array(
'FailOnAccessError'=>true,
'Files' => array( 'source'=>array() ),
),
$user
);

and the error I see is:

it was not possible to access the API call: it was returned an unexpected response status 400 Response: {"error": "Upload failed. Content-Type multipart/form-data; boundary=--500cc8709cfe156e5e38fdf9a1adbf48 must not be empty and not one of ('application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'multipart/form-data')"}

Oh, sorry, I just realized that you are not using the POST method.

For the PUT method you need to use RequestBody to pass the file data and RequestBodyContentType if you need to specify a content-type.

That did it. Many thanks.

FYI:

If I use RequestContentType I get an error "the request body is defined automatically from the parameters" and the upload fails.

If I don't use RequestContentType the upload works but I get a warning: "Notice: Undefined index: RequestContentType in /home/sites/kim-aldis.co.uk/public_html/wp5/wp-content/plugins/peanut/pnSocial/oauth-api/oauth_client.php on line 1441"

Not really a big deal, it's working so I'm good.

Are you setting it to application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data ? Those are only for POST form submissions.

For regular files you should use values like application/octet-stream, text/html, etc..

That did it. Again, thanks.


In case anyone finds it useful; $fileName is the file name to upload to on Dropbox, $filePath is the full path to the local file.


$success = $client->CallAPI(
‘https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files_put/auto/’ . $fileName,
'PUT',
array(),
array(
'FailOnAccessError'=>true,
'RequestBody' => file_get_contents( $filePath ),
'RequestContentType' => 'application/octet-stream'
),
$user
);