Bulk upload for attachments

Data Services
1

Hello everyone,
for migration of data to an A12 system (<PROJECT_NAME>) I need to transfer attachments from another (non-A12) system. For the “normal” documents there is the JSON-RPC endpoint where I can upload multiple documents at once. For attachments, there seems to be no such thing.

  1. Is there a best practice on how to upload many attachments at once?

  2. In the doc for the attachments REST API (GetA12 Login) it says you have to save the document after the upload - which API endpoint do I need to use for that?

Thanks,
Guido

2

Hi @guido-quiet-root,

Unfortunately there is functionality available right now nor is it planned for the future with <INTERNAL_LINK> Please create a ticket for this feature and we will take a look.

3

Unfortunately there is (no) functionality available right now nor is it planned for the future …

@tomas-thin-gale : I think (hope) this answers question 1 - what about the 2nd one? Is there any remote API to “save” the document?

4

Each attachment gets a unique UUID after it is created (using /attachment/upload endpoint) this UUID is then returned back to as a response of the upload requests. A Document can then be created or modified using this attachment UUID as a reference using ADD_DCUMENT or MODIFIDY_DOCUMENT JSON-RPC methods.

This is the example of document creation with attachment assignment.

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "AddDocumentWithAttachment",
    "method": "ADD_DOCUMENT",
    "params":  {
        "document": {
            "Product": {
                "name": "Document with attachment",
                "attachment1": {
                    "original_filename": "",
                    "internal_filename": "internal",
                    "content": "",
                    "attachment_id": "{{ATTACHMENT_UUID}}",
                    "size": "",
                    "mime_type": "jpeg",
                    "category": "",
                    "description": ""
                }
            }
        },
        "documentModelName": "ModelWithAttachment",
        "locale": "en"
    }
}

The Answer valid for Data services 32.2.0 to 34.0.0

5

@tomas-thin-gale : Thank you, I will look into it.