Using MS Graph API to upload large files. Is it possible to send metadata when we create an the upload session?

Question

During the /createUploadSession request I submit in the payload the following JSON:

{
  "item": {
      "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.driveItemUploadableProperties",
      "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename",
      "name": "largefile.dat"
    }
}

Server return HTTP error 400.

If I submit only one key-value like this

{
      "item": {
          "name": "largefile.dat"
        }
 }

server return HTTP 200 !

How to add multiple keys in the same payload request?

Answer 1

Hi @Pierre-Yves Rosat ,

The documentation is mentioning usage of POST for createUploadSession, when I tested this in Postman even I have same problem 400 Bad request.

POST /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{itemId}/createUploadSession  

After testing it multiple times using PUT for createUploadSession is working.

PUT /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{itemId}/createUploadSession  

Hope this helps.

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