[APIs] Requesting properties with PROPFIND

DDev · September 22, 2020, 12:27pm

Hi there,

as written on the documentation, I ‘can request additional properties by sending a request body with the PROPFIND request that lists all requested properties’; nonetheless, I don’t know how set the request string to do so.

I use CURL and the string I have to edit is:

curl -s -u username:password -X PROPFIND "https://next.azienda.eu/remote.php/dav/files/username/Photos"

and the additional properties I trying to get are fileid and has-preview

Any solution?
Thanks in advance!

gas85 · September 22, 2020, 12:29pm

I think you have to add body with request XML or JSON. Have a look here:

github.com

GAS85/nextcloud_scripts/blob/master/nextcloud-duplicates-tagger.sh#L38


[[ -r "$NextCloudPath"/config/config.php ]] || { echo >&2 "[ERROR] config.php could not be read under "$NextCloudPath"/config/config.php. Please check the path and permissions"; exit 1; }

# Fetch data directory place from the config file
DataDirectory=$(grep datadirectory "$NextCloudPath"/config/config.php | cut -d "'" -f4)

# Check if user Derectory exist
[[ -d "$DataDirectory/$user" ]] || { echo >&2 "[ERROR] User "$user" could not be found. Please check if case is correct"; exit 1; }

getFileID () {

	fileid="$(curl -s -m 10 -u $user:$password ''$NextcloudURL'/remote.php/dav/files/'${user}'/'${fileToTag}'' \
-X PROPFIND --data '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <d:propfind xmlns:d="DAV:">
   <d:prop xmlns:oc="http://owncloud.org/ns">
     <oc:fileid/>
   </d:prop>
 </d:propfind>' | xml_pp | grep "fileid" | sed -n 's/^.*<\(oc:fileid\)>\([^<]*\)<\/.*$/\2/p')"

	[[ "$LogLvL" == "Info" ]] && { echo "[INFO] Searching Nextcloud Internal FileID for $fileToTag"; }

	if [[ -z "$fileid" ]]; then

In the same file you can find example with JSON:

github.com

GAS85/nextcloud_scripts/blob/master/nextcloud-duplicates-tagger.sh#L91



		echo "[ERROR] Could to find tagID for a tag $tagName. Please check spelling and if tag exist"
		exit 1

	fi

}

SetTag () {

	curl -s -m 10 -u $user:$password ''$NextcloudURL'/remote.php/dav/systemtags-relations/files/'$fileid/$tagID \
-X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"userVisible":true,\
"userAssignable":true,\
"canAssign":true,\
"id":"'$tag'",\
"name":"'$tagName'"}'
	echo "[PROGRESS] Setting tag $tagName for $fileToTag."

}