Unable to add teams app in app catalog using Microsoft graph API

Question

I want to upload my teams app package to catalog but i am not able to do it. I am following https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/teamsapp-publish?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Please help

curl -F "data=@/home/Downloads/app_package.zip" -H "Authorization: Bearer user_token" -H "Content-length: 244" -H "Content-type: application/zip" -X POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/appCatalogs/teamsApps

Getting-

{"error":{"code":"BadRequest","message":"Invalid zip archive provided, ex: End of Central Directory record could not be found.","innerError":{"date":"2021-07-26T19:49:55","request-id":"f501141a-c74d-4df2-842a-e5f784732558","client-request-id":"f501141a-c74d-4df2-842a-e5f784732558"}}}

Answer 1

There are various reasons for this type error:

1. The archive is corrupt.
   Solution - The archive will need repairing.
2. It is not a .zip archive.
   It may be a .rar or other compressed type.
   Solution - Have to find a correct archive to use this code.
3. There is more than 1 part to the archive.
   A multi part zip file.
   Solution - Read in all the files before decompression.
4. The file may be hidden or have extended characters in the name.
   Solution - Check your file attributes/permissions and verify the file name.

Opening the file with your favorite zip/unzip utility (7-zip, winzip, etc) will tell which of these it could be.

Thanks,
Prasad Das

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Answer 2

The reason is that the option --data in curl pass the data using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlen‐coded.

The endpoint is prepared for receiving the data in binary format.

To fix this use --data-binary option, like that:

curl --data-binary @appPackage.zip -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" -H "Content-length: 35776" -H "Content-type: application/zip" -X POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/appCatalogs/teamsApps