I started learning SalesForce and developing apps using django.
I need assistance with uploading a file to salesforce, For that I read simple-salesforce and this that help to upload file using rest and SOAP api.
My question is how do I upload one or more files using simple-salesforce?
Here is the code block I use for uploading files.
def load_attachments(sf, new_attachments):
'''
Method to attach the Template from the Parent Case to each of the children.
@param: new_attachments the dictionary of child cases to the file name of the template
'''
url = "https://" + sf.get_forced_url() + ".my.salesforce.com/services/data/v29.0/sobjects/Attachment/"
bearer = "Bearer " + sf.get_session_id()
header = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Authorization': bearer}
for each in new_attachments:
body = ""
long_name = str(new_attachments[each]).split(sep="\\")
short_name = long_name[len(long_name) - 1]
with open(new_attachments[each], "rb") as upload:
body = base64.b64encode(upload.read())
data = json.dumps({
'ParentId': each,
'Name': short_name,
'body': body
})
response = requests.post(url, headers=header, data=data)
print(response.text)
Basically, to send the file, you need to use the requests module and submit the file via a post transaction. The post transaction requires the URL to which the request is sent, the header information, and the data.
Here, sf is the instance of returned by the simple-salesforce initialization. Since my instance uses custom domains, I had to create my own function in simple-salesforce to handle that; I call it get_forced_url(). Note: The URL is may be different for you depending on which version you are using [the v29.0 portion may change].
Then I set up my bearer and header.
The next thing is a loop that submits a new attachment for each attachment in a map from Parent ID to the File I wish to upload. This is important to note, attachments must have a Parent Object so you need to know the ParentId. For each attachment, I blank out the body, create a long and short name for the attachment. Then the important part. On attachments, the actual data of the file is stored as a base-64 binary array. So the file must be opened as binary, hence the "rb" and then encoded to base-64.
Once the file has been parsed to base-64 binary, I build my json string where ParentId is the object ID of the parent object, the Name is the short name, and the body is the base-64 encoded string of data.
Then the file is submitted to the URL with the headers and data. Then I print the response so I could watch it happening.