Question

Right now I’m using this code to upload files to Google Drive:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11657773/1715263
It works fine with a textfile.

With the same code I’m trying to create a folder, using this information from Google:
https://developers.google.com/drive/folder

so Google says “Content-Type: application/json” goes into the header and “application/vnd.google-apps.folder” should be the mimetype in the body(?), thats what I’m doing in my code, which looks like this now:

function createFolder() 
{
    var access_token = googleAuth.getAccessToken();

    var json = JSON.stringify({
        mimeType: 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder',
        title: 'Folder',
    });

    var body =  "Content-Type: application/json" + "\r\n" +
                "Content-Length: " + json.length + "\r\n" + "\r\n" +
                json;

    gapi.client.request({

        'path': '/upload/drive/v2/files/',
        'method': 'POST',
        'params': {'uploadType': 'multipart'},
        'headers': {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token,             
        },
        'body': body
    }).execute(function(file) { 
        document.getElementById("info").innerHTML = "Created folder: " + file;
    }); 

But it’s only creating a file named “Untitled”, it’s no folder and you can’t open it.

When I change the “Content-Type” in the “headers” section to “application/vnd.google-apps.folder” and remove the “body” part, it’s creating a folder named “Untitled”.

How can I get it to create a folder with a specific title?

Answer 1

Finally got it working by googling Claudios code which led me to this piece of code: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11361392/1715263

The important thing that changed is the ‘path’, its now “/drive/v2/files/” instead of “/upload/drive/v2/files/”.
I just removed the ‘gapi.client.load’-function, added headers information and changed the bodys mimeType.

So here’s the code:

function createFolder() {

   var access_token = googleAuth.getAccessToken();

   var request = gapi.client.request({
       'path': '/drive/v2/files/',
       'method': 'POST',
       'headers': {
           'Content-Type': 'application/json',
           'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token,             
       },
       'body':{
           "title" : "Folder",
           "mimeType" : "application/vnd.google-apps.folder",
       }
   });

   request.execute(function(resp) { 
       console.log(resp); 
       document.getElementById("info").innerHTML = "Created folder: " + resp.title;
   });
}