I'm creating an image file in drive v3 successfully, but cannot retrieve the URI for the file; I'm expecting to find it in the success response_object.
I do find the file ID in the response_object and I can use that to construct a URI that displays the image:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw4DMtLCtPMkNERiTnpVNDdQV2c/view
I would like to have 'an official/correct' URI to hand to the google Cloud Vision API as an image source. I think I'm looking for the webContentLink v3-file metadata. I guess, more generally, I can't see how to get all the metadata (as described on https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/files) for the file that I have just created.
var newFileMetadata = {
'name': unique_file_name,
description: options.multipart,
useContentAsIndexableText: false,
parents: [ file.id ]
};
var media = {
mimeType: 'image/jpg',
body: fs.createReadStream(options.src_dir + '/' + sourceFile),
viewersCanCopyContent: true,
writersCanShare: true
};
var request_object = drive.files.create({
auth: auth,
resource: newFileMetadata,
media: media,
fields: ['id']
},
function(err, response) {
if (err) {
console.log('drive.files.create error: %s %s', err, response);
return;
} else {
// file create success; get response
console.log('dump the response\n %s', JSON.stringify(response));
}
}
); // end of drive.files.create()
and the console output is (with cr for readability):
dump the request_object
{"uri": {"protocol":"https:", "slashes":true, "auth":null, "host":"www.googleapis.com", "port":null, "hostname":"www.googleapis.com", "hash":null, "search":"?fields=id&uploadType=multipart", "query":"fields=id&uploadType=multipart", "pathname":"/upload/drive/v3/files", "path":"/upload/drive/v3/files?fields=id&uploadType=multipart", "href":"https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?fields=id&uploadType=multipart"}, "method":"POST", "headers":{"Authorization":"Bearer ya29.GlxfB18oVtG6A3j7cXzSq17-RSmj9-2BlQm4zHD5sPzKkfhRM1FxlxUHc9mxWaka1N2fBiTJun-SYLB8ewuc63XVbUo01q0bS2FiS6iJTq9O1h9FQWfoO5r8E6z_6Q", "User-Agent":"google-api-nodejs-client/0.10.0","host":"www.googleapis.com", "transfer-encoding":"chunked", "content-type":"multipart/related; boundary=d6cef3f5-2246-5654-ac1f-d00561be5e8a"} }
dump the response {"id":"0Bw4DMtLCtPMkNERiTnpVNDdQV2c"}
to recap:
- how do I get (in Node.js) a google Cloud Vision appropriate URI for a newly created google Drive v3 image file?
- how do I get (in Node.js) the metadata for a newly created google Drive v3 image file?
Many thanks.
new information: I have tried a separate drive.files.get()
drive.files.get({
auth: auth,
fileId: response.id
},
function(err, response) {
if (err) {
console.log('drive.files.get error: %s %s', err, response);
return;
} else {
// file create success; get properties
console.log('get properties\n %s', JSON.stringify(response));
}
});
and I do receive some metadata (but not the big picture), console output, new upload:
get properties {"kind":"drive#file","id":"0Bw4DMtLCtPMkWFdTMUVwY2tRZ2c","name":"2017-06-04T17:57:42.189Zlovelock.png","mimeType":"image/png"}
