Google Drive API parent insert error "Resource metadata required"

Question

I want to insert a new parent for my file in Google Drive. This allows the file to be in two different folders at the same time with the same FileID. This is my code: (I'm running this on Node.js and using request Node package but this shouldn't make any difference anyways).

var request_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/' + FILE_ID + '/parents/';
 request.post({
   "url": request_url,
   'headers': {
     'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + accessToken
   },
   'body': JSON.stringify({
     id: PARENT_FOLDER_ID
   })

 }, function(response, body) {
   console.log(body);
 });

However, I'm getting the following error:

{
  "error": {
    "errors": [{
      "domain": "global",
      "reason": "resourceRequired",
      "message": "Resource metadata required"
    }],
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Resource metadata required"
  }
}

I've search Google Drive's API documentations but didn't find any relevant solutions.

Google Drive Parents insert API reference: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/parents/insert

Google Drive API parents resource schema: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/parents#resource

any help would be greatly appreciated :)

pinoyyid · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-04 15:31:34Z

1

Instead of

 'body': JSON.stringify({
     id: PARENT_FOLDER_ID
   })

try

'json': {
         id: PARENT_FOLDER_ID
       }

answered Feb 4, 2016 at 15:31

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Aryan Over a year ago

Thank you for the help! One questions though, wouldn't "body" of a request be the "body" that Google Drive expects? does this mean that "json" is actually the body of the request?

pinoyyid Over a year ago

you'll need to read the API docs for node request to understand the difference. In both cases, the body of the http request is (probably) the same. The difference is the setting of the Content-Type http header which tells the server (G Drive in this case) how to interpret that body.

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