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Update file

PATCH https://dev-api.bentley.com/storage/files/{fileId}

Update the file.

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

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

Parameters

fileId – Id of the file which you want to update.

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 InvalidCreateFileRequest error with 422 status code. This could happen because of these reasons:

File name contains invalid characters.
File name's length is larger than 255 characters.
File could be harmful. For example, executable files are not accepted.

Request

Request parameters

fileId

Yes

Id of the file which you want to update

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

file (update)

displayName

String

Display name of the file.

description

String

Description of the file.

Example

json

{
    "displayName": "test.txt",
    "description": "test file"
}

Response

Response 200 OK

json

{
    "file": {
        "id": "TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5pN5AQzuullIkxz5aDnDJSI",
        "displayName": "test.txt",
        "description": "test file",
        "path": "folderName/test.txt",
        "size": 8,
        "lastModifiedByDisplayName": "Bob User",
        "createdDateTime": "2020-05-03T11:05:11.0133549Z",
        "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-05-15T12:07:06.7841448Z",
        "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

File cannot be found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "FileNotFound",
        "message": "Requested file is not available."
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

Invalid request to update a file. Make sure that a valid file ID and file details were passed in.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidStorageRequest",
        "message": "The request to update file 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

file (response)

Retrieved file response containing file.

file

file-details

Full representation of the file.

file-details type

Identification of the file entity.

file

String

file-details

file-details type

file-details-type

Identification of the file entity.

size

Integer

Size to the file in bytes.

isFileLocked

Boolean, null

Indicate whether the file is locked or not.

file (update)

Model for file update.

displayName

String

Display name of the file.

description

String

Description of the file.

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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