CRUD operation on Files using REST

In the previous post we have seen CRUD operation on SharePoint ListItems. In this post we are going to discuss about the operations on files in SharePoint Library using rest api.

Starting with the creation of File class in our"RESTApiHelper" namespace.

RESTApiHelper.Files = function (SiteUrl,ListName,FolderUrl) {
    this.SiteUrl = SiteUrl;
    this.ListName = ListName;
    this.FolderUrl = FolderUrl;
   
Get All Files in Folder

    this.GetAllFiles = function (doSuccess, doError) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('" + this.FolderUrl + "')/Files",
            type: "GET",
            headers: {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Get File in folder by FileName

    this.GetFileMetadataByUrl = function (FileName, doSuccess, doError) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('" + this.FolderUrl + "')/Files('" + FileName + "')",
            type: "GET",
            headers: {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Get File Content

    this.GetFileContentByUrl = function (FileName, doSuccess, doError) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('" + this.FolderUrl + "')/Files('" + FileName + "')/$value",
            type: "GET",
            binaryStringResponseBody: true,
            headers: {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Get File by Server relative url

    this.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl = function (FileUrl, doSuccess, doError) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('" + FileUrl + "')",
            type: "GET",
            headers: {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Get File Property By Server relative url

    this.GetFilePropertyByServerRelativeUrl = function (FileUrl, PropertyName, doSuccess, doError) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('" + FileUrl + "')/" + PropertyName,
            type: "GET",
            headers: {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Update File Content by Server Relative Url

    this.UpdateFileContentByServerRelativeUrl = function (FileUrl, FileContent) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('" + FileUrl + "')/$value",
            type: "POST",
            body:FileContent,
            headers: {
                "accept" : "application/json;odata=verbose",
                "X-HTTP-Method" : "PUT"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Upload File into Folder

    this.AddFile = function (arrayBuffer, fileUrl, doSuccess, doError) {
        var fileData = '';
        var byteArray = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);
        for (var i = 0; i < byteArray.byteLength; i++) {
            fileData += String.fromCharCode(byteArray[i]);
        }

        // Send the request.
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('" + this.FolderUrl + "')/Files/add(overwrite=true, url='" + fileUrl + "')",
            method: "POST",
            body: fileData,
            binaryStringRequestBody: true,
            headers: { "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose" },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });       
    }


Delete File using Server relative url

    this.DeleteFileByServerRelativeUrl = function (FileUrl, doSuccess, doError) {
        jQuery.ajax({
            url: this.SiteUrl + "/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('" + FileUrl + "')",
            type: "GET",
            headers: {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
                "X-HTTP-Method": "DELETE"
            },
            success: doSuccess,
            error: doError
        });
    }

Click here to get the full script. This is it for the file object in SharePoint. In the next post we will work on folders. So stay tuned and enjoy, have fun with REST and JQuery !!!!