Graph API - upload zip file

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Graph API - upload zip file

Shadi Rashed 71

Hello,
I am trying to use this endpoint to upload a small zip file to my Document Library in Sharepoint https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-put-content?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
/drives/{drive-id}/items/{parent-id}:/{filename}:/content

The file gets uploaded fine, however, when I then download the file to my local machine it does not get recognized as a zip file. I am uploading the file with the filename "test.zip" and using the Content-Type Header "application/zip". Is there anything else that I need to be aware of for uploading more complex files than just simple texts?

Unfortunately the documentation only gives examples for writing some text to a file.

Many Thanks!
Shadi

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Zehui Yao_MSFT 5,876

Hello anonymous userRashed-1057, I test with API PUT /drives/{drives-id}/root:/MyFolder/MyFile.txt:/content. And both upload and download work fine. Please try to do the same in postman and check the result.

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Shadi Rashed 71 Reputation points

2022-05-09T10:32:30.673+00:00
Hello, thanks for the quick answer. Yes in Postman it works fine for me. Please see below for the code difference between Postman and my code. Does Graph API not work with the files, but instead with the data payload?

#Postman code response = requests.request("PUT", url, headers=headers, data=<binary file>) #My code response = requests.request("PUT", url, headers=headers, files=<binary file>)
Shadi Rashed 71 Reputation points

2022-05-09T12:04:29.137+00:00

I also noticed that it works fine for PDFs, but not for PNGs and ZIPS for example
Zehui Yao_MSFT 5,876 Reputation points

2022-05-10T06:26:54.787+00:00

Hi anonymous userRashed-1057, which language you are using? As Graph may have limited support for some languages.
Shadi Rashed 71 Reputation points

2022-05-10T06:56:34.51+00:00

This is the Python requests library. Postman uses the exact same mechanism
Zehui Yao_MSFT 5,876 Reputation points

2022-05-10T10:16:24.017+00:00

Hello anonymous userRashed-1057, I'm doing some research on this now and will get back to you later.
Zehui Yao_MSFT 5,876 Reputation points

2022-05-12T07:03:02.8+00:00

Hello anonymous userRashed-1057, I'm trying to reproduce your error scenario, would you mind providing a screenshot of the error message?
Shadi Rashed 71 Reputation points

2022-05-18T10:58:05.35+00:00

Hello @Zehui Yao_MSFT
I found the issue and it turns out to be something wrong on my side, not on the API side. So all good. Thanks so much for your help in the meantime.

Regards
Shadi
Zehui Yao_MSFT 5,876 Reputation points

2022-05-20T09:38:53.407+00:00

Hi anonymous userRashed-1057, glad to hear you found the cause of the problem hope you are doing well.

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