Uploading bitstreams via API (DSpace7.6)

[Antti Laurila]

Hi!

I've tried to find the correct API endpoint (DSpace 7.6) for uploading bitstreams to the repository. All I could find where either managing the metadata of the bitstreams or move/delete operations per bitstream. Is this sort of operation possible with the 7.x version, with 5,x I was able to do this?

Otherwise, the experience with the new DSpace has been great!

Best regards,
Antti Laurila
University of Eastern Finland

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Antti,

You may have already discovered this, but *everything* you can do from the DSpace 7 User Interface is also possible to do via the REST API.  This is because the REST API is called everytime you click a link or button in the UI.  You can see all these REST API calls in your browser's Developers Tools while interacting with the UI.  Take a look at the "Network" tab in those Developer Tools.

Generally speaking, if you want to figure out how to do something via the REST API, just do it via the UI and see what calls it makes.  Then you can also check the docs for that specific endpoint at https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract/#readme

Tim

[dataquest]

Hello. We recently needed to upload bitstreams through REST API. We used following call:
{server-url}/server/api/core/bundles/ab01bfb5-a078-4e60-895f-50a71f1a3cb1/bitstreams

Please note that the UUID of the call is UUID of the Bundle, not the Item. 

We sent file in body in form-data. Key "properties" contains JSON with necessary metadata

and key "file" contains file.

Since you state you worked with other APIs, I don't think it would be helpful to

add information about tokens and authentication. 

I hope this can help you.

Best regards,

Majo

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[Antti Laurila]

Thank you so much, both of you. I indeed tried to find out the correct API endpoint using the browser devtools, but everything I saw seemed incorrect. And after these answers, it is so clear what was wrong: I kept looking for the item UUID instead of the bundle UUID and thought the API-calls to the bundle endpoint were meant for calling something else. This really helped me, thank you again!



- Antti