I'm trying to perform a rest API POST request to upload an attachment to a Share Point List
I've successfully managed it with Postman via the file link on the Body /Binary tab of PostMan
(with URL https://mysharepointsite/_api/Web/Lists(guid'mylistguid')/items(7406)/AttachmentFiles/ add(FileName='myfile.xlsx')
but I can't work out how to code the binary data part in SAS Proc HTTP
The curl snippet for the binary content is
proc http url= "https://mysharepointsite/_api/Web/Lists(guid'mylistguid')/Items(7406)/AttachmentFiles/ add(FileName='myfile.xlsx')" method = "POST" OAUTH_BEARER= &token. IN= '@/Y:/API_Project/SharePoint/OutPut/myfile.xlsx' headerout = Atthead HEADEROUT_OVERWRITE clear_cache; headers "X-RequestDigest"="&FDV." "Accept"="application/json"; run;
Many thanks for quick reply - I'll try creating a JSON file to read in put I'm still unclear how I should reference the file path in the JSON. What key should I use to reference ?
I have not tried methods to add attachments -- only to upload files into a SharePoint collection. I've got that code in some macros in this GitHub project: https://github.com/sascommunities/sas-microsoft-graph-api/
That method uses the Upload Session API that allows for large files. It seems like this attachment approach is different, but maybe you can glean some hints from it.
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