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Storage
Download API definition:
PATCH https://dev-api.bentley.com/storage/folders/{folderId}

Update the Folder.

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 folderId MUST be provided in the parameters.

Parameters

folderId – Id of the folder 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 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 parameters

Name
Required?
Description
folderId
Yes

Id of the folder which you want to update

Request headers

Name
Required?
Description
Authorization
Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Accept
Yes

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

Request body

folder (update)

Name
Type
Required?
Description
displayName
String
No

Display name of the folder.

description
String
No

Description of the folder.

Example

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

Response 200 OK

OK

json
{
    "folder": {
        "id": "TYJsPN0xtkWId0yUrXkS5pN5AQzuullIkxz5aDnDJSI",
        "displayName": "test",
        "description": "test folder",
        "path": "folderName/test",
        "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

Parent folder cannot be found.

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

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

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

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

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

Name
Description
retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

folder (response)

Retrieved folder response containing folder.

Name
Type
Description
folder

Full representation of the folder.

folder-details type

Identification of the folder entity.

Name
Type
Description
folder
String

folder-details

Full representation of the folder.

Name
Type
Description
folder-details type

Identification of the folder entity.

folder (update)

Model for folder update.

Name
Type
Description
displayName
String

Display name of the folder.

description
String

Description of the folder.

Error

Contains error information.

Name
Type
Description
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.

Name
Type
Description
error

Error information.