Hi Gurus,
I have a requirement to rename files in Box having specific delimiters and extension in the file name, though renaming is a option in the front end, I did not see a Box API which I can leverage to perform the same action (I would need to do this dynamically every time a file is posted to Box). Any help / ideas on the same would be highly appreciated.
Thanks and Regards, Sidd.
Hi Siddhartha,
You can make a PUT call to the files API, specifying the name, see here.
And the curl example:
curl -i -X PUT "https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/12345" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "name": "New name" }'Not sure what tools you are using, but this is implemented both on the CLI and the SDK's
CLI example:
❯ box folders:items 0 --fields type,id,name --csv
type,id,name
...
folder,169047753928,UI Elements Demo
file,1039371254466,upload_file.py
❯ box files:rename 1039371254466 my_new_uploaded_file.py --fields type,id,name --csv
type,id,name
file,1039371254466,my_new_uploaded_file.py
❯ box folders:items 0 --fields type,id,name --csv
type,id,name
...
folder,169047753928,UI Elements Demo
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