Office365 Basic Operations Using REST API In SharePoint Online 2013-Create File

This blog will help you to perform basic Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations on the files/folders with SharePoint 2013 REST interface.

REST API supports only the format given below, so please be cautious before executing your code.

Create a file and add it to a folder.

url: http://site url/_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('/newFolder')/Files

method: GET

Headers:

Authorization: "Bearer " + accessToken

X-RequestDigest: form digest value

content-length:length of post body

Source code

Copy the code given below and paste in your SharePoint ADD-IN.

Create a file into the folder in SharePoint O365, using REST API. 

var hostweburl;
var appweburl;


$(document).ready(function () {

  hostweburl = decodeURIComponent(getQueryStringParameter("SPHostUrl"));
  appweburl = decodeURIComponent(getQueryStringParameter("SPAppWebUrl"));

  $.getScript(hostweburl + "/_layouts/15/SP.RequestExecutor.js", runCrossDomainRequest);
});


function runCrossDomainRequest() {
  var executor = new SP.RequestExecutor(appweburl);
  executor.executeAsync({
    url: appweburl +"_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('/CustomFolder')/Files/add(url='Test.txt',overwrite=true)"
        method: POST
        body: "Contents of file"
        Headers:
            Authorization: "Bearer " + accessToken
            X-RequestDigest: form digest value
            content-length:length of post body
              success: successHandler
              error: errorHandler
  });
}


function getQueryStringParameter(paramToRetrieve) {
  var params = document.URL.split("?")[1].split("&");
  var strParams = "";
  for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i = i + 1) {
    var singleParam = params[i].split("=");
    if (singleParam[0] == paramToRetrieve) return singleParam[1];
  }
}

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