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Create folder

POST https://dev-api.bentley.com/storage/folders/{folderId}/folders

Creates a Folder inside the provided FolderId.

As shown in the request section below, you must provide a request body.

The displayName MUST be provided in the request body, and the folderId MUST be provided in the parameters.

Parameters

folderId – Id of the folder in which you want to create the folder.

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have storage_write permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

Errors

This request can return InvalidCreateFolderRequest error with 422 status code. This could happen because of these reasons:

Folder name contains invalid characters.
Folder name's length is larger than 255 characters.

Request

Request parameters

folderId

Yes

Id of the folder in which you want to create the folder.

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Request body

folder (create)

displayName

String

Yes

Display name of the folder.

description

String

Description of the folder.

Example

json

{
    "displayName": "test",
    "description": "test folder"
}

Response

Response 201 Created

Created

json

{
    "folder": {
        "id": "TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5pN5AQzuullIkxz5aDnDJSI",
        "displayName": "test",
        "description": "test folder",
        "path": "folderName/test",
        "lastModifiedByDisplayName": "Bob User",
        "createdDateTime": "2020-05-03T11:05:11.0133549Z",
        "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-05-03T11:05:11.0133549Z",
        "parentFolderId": "TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5g0CIYaGZLxEozrWBCOcS_s",
        "_links": {
            "createdBy": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/accesscontrol/itwins/6959daff-27f5-4b87-96ea-9917daa3a8ff/members/1140f95b-1ba0-49d9-bbf4-b53e54d80387"
            },
            "lastModifiedBy": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/accesscontrol/itwins/6959daff-27f5-4b87-96ea-9917daa3a8ff/members/1140f95b-1ba0-49d9-bbf4-b53e54d80387"
            },
            "parentFolder": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/storage/folders/TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5g0CIYaGZLxEozrWBCOcS_s"
            }
        }
    }
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 404 Not Found

Parent folder cannot be found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "FolderNotFound",
        "message": "Requested folder is not available."
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

Invalid request to create a folder. Make sure that a valid folder ID and folder details were passed in.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidStorageRequest",
        "message": "The request to create folder was invalid. Please see the API Reference for possible reasons."
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the client sent more requests than allowed by this API for the current tier of the client.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "RateLimitExceeded",
        "message": "The client sent more requests than allowed by this API for the current tier of the client."
    }
}

Response headers

retry-after

Number of seconds to wait until client is allowed to make more requests.

Definitions

folder (response)

Retrieved folder response containing folder.

folder

folder-details

Full representation of the folder.

folder-details type

Identification of the folder entity.

folder

String

folder-details

Full representation of the folder.

folder-details type

folder-details-type

Identification of the folder entity.

folder (create)

Model for folder creation.

displayName

String

Display name of the folder.

description

String

Description of the folder.

Error

Contains error information.

code

String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message

String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target

String, null

The target of the error.

Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

error

Error

Error information.

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