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Aryan
Aryan

Reputation: 75

Google Drive API parent insert error "Resource metadata required"

I want to insert a new parent for my file in Google Drive. This allows the file to be in two different folders at the same time with the same FileID. This is my code: (I'm running this on Node.js and using request Node package but this shouldn't make any difference anyways).

var request_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/' + FILE_ID + '/parents/';
 request.post({
   "url": request_url,
   'headers': {
     'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + accessToken
   },
   'body': JSON.stringify({
     id: PARENT_FOLDER_ID
   })

 }, function(response, body) {
   console.log(body);
 });

However, I'm getting the following error:

{
  "error": {
    "errors": [{
      "domain": "global",
      "reason": "resourceRequired",
      "message": "Resource metadata required"
    }],
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Resource metadata required"
  }
}

I've search Google Drive's API documentations but didn't find any relevant solutions.

Google Drive Parents insert API reference: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/parents/insert

Google Drive API parents resource schema: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/parents#resource

any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 385

Answers (1)

pinoyyid
pinoyyid

Reputation: 22306

Instead of 

 'body': JSON.stringify({
     id: PARENT_FOLDER_ID
   })

try

'json': {
         id: PARENT_FOLDER_ID
       }

Upvotes: 1

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