Upload Media Library to IFS Cloud using Postman

Thanks, Paul, this is much appreciated!

@paul harland @Mathias Dahl  We have a requirement in a IFS Cloud implementation project where we need to attach around 15000 images to Part Master records. I’m using DMM tool to populate “Media_item”, “Media_Library”, and “Media_library_item” tables for the connections. But I’m struggling in mass uploading images to the application.

Is there a current solution in IFS Cloud to upload large set of media items?

If not can this Postman method be utilized for this?

Thanks in advance!

Harsha  

Hi @Harsha,

I think uploading with PLSQL going to be easy. You can get references from blocks in the below.

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/*CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY TEMP_DIR7 AS 'C:\TEMP_DIR7';
GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY temp_dir TO PUBLIC;
SELECT * FROM DBA_DIRECTORIES;*/

DECLARE
      user_id_       VARCHAR2(100) :='A1';
      file_name_     VARCHAR2(32767) := '1.jpg';
      picture_blob_  BLOB;
      picture_bfile_ BFILE;
      fileopen_failed_exc_ EXCEPTION;
      PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (fileopen_failed_exc_, -22288);
      info_          VARCHAR2(32767);
      objid_         VARCHAR2(32767);
      objversion_    VARCHAR2(32767);
      attr_          VARCHAR2(32767);
      blob_id_       binary_object.blob_id%TYPE;
      dest_offset_   NUMBER := 1;
      src_offset_    NUMBER := 1;
   BEGIN
      language_sys.set_language('en');

      picture_bfile_ := BFILENAME('TEMP_DIR', file_name_); --CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY TEMP_DIR AS 'C:\TEMP_DIR'; serverda C altına manule oluşturmak lazım. Değişken gibi oluşturuyor.
      BEGIN
         dbms_lob.fileopen(picture_bfile_, dbms_lob.file_readonly);
         dbms_lob.createtemporary(picture_blob_, TRUE);
         dbms_lob.loadblobfromfile (
            dest_lob    => picture_blob_,
            src_bfile   => picture_bfile_,
            amount      => dbms_lob.lobmaxsize,
            dest_offset => dest_offset_,
            src_offset  => src_offset_);
         dbms_lob.fileclose(picture_bfile_);
      EXCEPTION WHEN fileopen_failed_exc_ THEN
         picture_blob_ := NULL;
         dbms_lob.fileclose(picture_bfile_);
      END;

       SELECT picture_id
        INTO blob_id_
        FROM person_info
       WHERE person_id = UPPER(user_id_);

      binary_object_api.create_or_replace(
         blob_id_           => blob_id_,
         display_text_      => file_name_,
         file_name_         => file_name_,
         file_path_         => 'C:\ds\',
         external_storage_  => 'FALSE',
         length_            => 0,
         type_              => 'PICTURE',
         application_data_  => '');

      binary_object_data_block_api.new__(
         objversion_        => objversion_,
         objid_             => objid_,
         blob_id_           => blob_id_,
         application_data_  => '7');

      binary_object_data_block_api.write_data__(
         objversion_  => objversion_,
         rowid_       => objid_,
         lob_loc_     => picture_blob_);

      SELECT objid,
             objversion
        INTO objid_,
             objversion_
        FROM person_info
       WHERE person_id = UPPER(user_id_);
      client_sys.clear_attr(attr_);
      client_sys.add_to_attr('PICTURE_ID', blob_id_, attr_);
      person_info_api.modify__(info_, objid_, objversion_, attr_, 'DO');
END;

Download

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY TEMP_DIR AS 'C:\TEMP_DIR';
GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY TEMP_DIR TO PUBLIC;
SELECT * FROM DBA_DIRECTORIES;

DECLARE
	temp_ INTEGER;
	PROCEDURE download_picture
	(
		picture_id_  IN INTEGER,
		pic_name_    IN VARCHAR2,
		folder_name_ IN VARCHAR2
	) IS
		l_file     utl_file.file_type;
		l_buffer   RAW(32767);
		l_amount   BINARY_INTEGER := 32767;
		l_pos      INTEGER := 1;
		l_blob     BLOB;
		l_blob_len INTEGER;
		l_filename VARCHAR2(256);
	BEGIN
		SELECT b.data INTO l_blob FROM ifsapp.binary_object_data_block b WHERE b.blob_id = picture_id_;
		l_filename := pic_name_ || '.jpg';
		l_blob_len := dbms_lob.getlength(l_blob);
		l_file     := utl_file.fopen(folder_name_, l_filename, 'wb');
		WHILE l_pos < l_blob_len
		LOOP
			dbms_lob.read(l_blob, l_amount, l_pos, l_buffer);
			utl_file.put_raw(l_file, l_buffer, TRUE);
			l_pos := l_pos + l_amount;
		END LOOP;
		utl_file.fclose(l_file);
	END download_picture;
BEGIN
	FOR rec_ IN (SELECT t.picture_id,
						t.emp_no
				 FROM   ifsapp.company_person t
				 WHERE  t.picture_id IS NOT NULL)
	LOOP
		BEGIN
			SELECT b.blob_id INTO temp_ FROM ifsapp.binary_object_data_block b WHERE b.blob_id = rec_.picture_id;
		EXCEPTION
			WHEN no_data_found THEN
				CONTINUE;
		END;
		download_picture(rec_.picture_id, rec_.emp_no, 'TEMP_DIR');
	END LOOP;
END;

@hhy38  Thank you for the reply. With IFS Cloud we don’t have direct (app owner) access to the database to do this. 

@Harsha You are welcome. So then you should do it with REST service. 

We don't have any way to upload media items in bulk. You need to use Postman or some other REST-capable tool. You should even be able to use the command line tool "curl" that's readily available on different operating systems. Or ask ChatGPT to write a program in any favorite language 🙂