Uploading PDF's through the protocol

[Daniel Marashlian]

Hi Eric,

I have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible to create a new/empty doc of type "PDF" in the same
way we use the protocol for documents, spreadsheets, and
presentations?

2. For Web-Applications (getting the file from the client's computer),
I had to take your suggestions and modify the C# API function:

public DocumentEntry UploadDocument(string fileName, string
documentName)

in that function, you pass in the filename (path to file on the user's
computer) and within the function there is code to get the stream of
that file:

FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo(fileName);
FileStream stream = fileInfo.Open(FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read,
FileShare.ReadWrite);

so I created an overloaded function:

private static DocumentEntry UploadDocument(DocumentsService service,
byte[] bytes, string filename)

it takes in the DocumentsService service object to call
service.Insert, though as you see I pass in the bytes of the file (in
which I create a stream from). I needed to do this because from a web-
application, we don't have access to the user's computer, though
through the HTML file type input control, we can get the bytes of the
file.

But the issue I'm seeing is the Google Docs API is returning me an
error telling me it's an unsupported file type.

Any ideas?

[Daniel Marashlian]

Here's more information from the error messages for question 2 above:

Exception: {"Execution of request failed: http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/full"}

Inner Exception: {"The remote server returned an error: (415)
Unsupported Media Type."}

[Eric Bidelman]

1. No, PDFs need content on creation time.

2. http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/full is a v2.0

URI.  Change it to /feeds/default/...

-eric

[Daniel Marashlian]

HI Eric,

I changed the URL to "http://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/
full" in my custom UploadDocument function.

and now it's giving me an error: {"Execution of request failed:
http://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full"}
inner exception: {"The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad
Request."}

here is my custom function:

private static DocumentEntry UploadDocument(DocumentsService service,

Stream stream, string filename)
{
Uri postUri = new Uri("http://docs.google.com/feeds/
default/private/full");

//convert the extension to caps and strip the "." off the
front
string ext = Path.GetExtension(filename).ToUpper
().Substring(1);

Hashtable GDocumentsAllowedTypes = new Hashtable();
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("CSV", "text/csv");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("TAB", "text/tab-separated-
values");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("TSV", "text/tab-separated-
values");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("TXT", "text/plain");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("HTML", "text/html");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("HTM", "text/html");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("DOC", "application/msword");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("DOCX", "application/
vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("ODS", "application/x-
vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("ODT", "application/
vnd.oasis.opendocument.text");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("RTF", "application/rtf");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("SXW", "application/
vnd.sun.xml.writer");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("XLSX", "application/
vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("XLS", "application/vnd.ms-
excel");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("PPT", "application/vnd.ms-
powerpoint");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("PPS", "application/vnd.ms-
powerpoint");
GDocumentsAllowedTypes.Add("PDF", "application/pdf");

string contentType = (String)GDocumentsAllowedTypes[ext];

if (contentType == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("File extension '" + ext +
"' is not recognized as a valid GDoc extension.");
}

DocumentEntry entry = service.Insert(postUri, stream,
contentType, filename) as DocumentEntry;

stream.Close();

return entry;
}


how do I get this working so I can upload PDF files?

thanks!
Daniel

On Oct 17, 6:22 pm, Eric Bidelman <api.e...@google.com> wrote:
> 1. No, PDFs need content on creation time.

> 2.http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/fullis a v2.0

> URI.  Change it to /feeds/default/...
>
> -eric
>

[Eric Bidelman]

I don't see a version header.

[Daniel Marashlian]

sweeeeeeeeettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt :)

On Oct 18, 10:37 pm, Eric Bidelman <api.e...@google.com> wrote:
> I don't see a version header.
>

> > > 2.http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/fullisa v2.0

[Seth Hillman]

Can you post some code that fixed the version header issue? I am
getting the same error and I set the following in my UploadDocument
method:
this.ProtocolMajor = VersionDefaults.VersionTwo;

Thanks.

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[Seth Hillman]

never mind. I set it to 3 and now it works.

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