Create BLOB

Motivation

Creates a new BLOB with the uploaded binary data

Functional design

• POST /api/v2/apps/{owner}/{app}/workspaces/{wsid}/docs/{pkg}.{table}/blobs/{fieldName} Creates a new BLOB with the uploaded binary data. The ID of the BLOB is returned in the response and can be used to write the BLOB to specified field of a document or record when creating or updating record.

Headers

Key	Value
Authorization	Bearer {PrincipalToken}
Content-Type	BLOB content type
Blob-Name	BLOB name, optional

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
owner	string	name of a user who owns the application
app	string	name of an application
wsid	int64	the ID of workspace
pkg, table	string	identifies a table (document or record)
fieldName	string	name of the field in document which should keep the BLOB

Body

BLOB data.

Result

Code	Description	Body
201	Created	blob ID, see example below
400	Bad Request	error object
401	Unauthorized	error object
403	Forbidden	error object
413	Payload Too Large	error object
415	Unsupported Media Type	error object
429	Too Many Requests	error object
500	Internal Server Error	error object
503	Service Unavailable	error object

Example response 201:

{
    "blobID": 123456789, 
}

Perimssions

• Execution of this function is granted to role sys.BLOBUploader which is by default granted to sys.WorkspaceOwner.

Technical design

Components

• ~cmp.sysBlobOwnerRecord~✅ extend pkg/sys/Workspace/wdoc.sys.BLOB with new fields:

  • OwnerRecord qname NOT NULL

  • OwnerRecordField varchar NOT NULL

  • OwnerRecordID ref

• pkg/router

  • ~cmp.routerBlobsCreatePathHandler~✅: Create BLOB path handler

• pkg/sys/it

  • ~it.TestBlobsCreate~✅: integration test for creating BLOBs