I'm trying to update/add a photo to an existing contact using the Google Contacts API v3 and just can't figure out how to do it. I'm using ColdFusion.
I can authenticate thru the Google service, read a photo, display it, and even delete a photo. When I try to update or add a photo for a contact, I'm getting a status code 400 of Bad Request - Invalid image file.
This is the code I'm using:
<cfhttp method="put" url="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/myemail/contactid" result="chgphoto">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Authorization" value="OAuth sessiontoken" >
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="GData-Version" value="3.0">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="If-Match" value="*">
<cfhttpparam name="Content-Type" type="header" value="image/jpeg">
(THE NEXT LINE IS IS MY ISSUE - I THINK)
<cfhttpparam type="body" value="E:\PATH\TO\FILE\image.jpg">
</cfhttp>
I've tried many, many combinations for the line I believe my issue is at, including:
1. <cfhttpparam type="body" value="E:\PATH\TO\FILE\image.jpg">
2. <cfhttpparam type="body" value="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">
3. <cfhttpparam type="header" name="body" value="E:\PATH\TO\FILE\image.jpg">
4. <cfhttpparam type="xml" value="<link rel='http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel##photo' type='image/*' href='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/myemail/contactid'>">
Of course, none of these are the correct way to do it. Can anyone help?
So unfortunately, I found out the initial answer was not accurate since using #fileRead("E:\PATH\TO\FILE\image.jpg")#"> only reads a portion of the file and not all of it. The result is either an image that gets saved through the Google API garbled or not at all - ie 400 Bad Request. That being said, without the input from the original responder of this question, I would not have been able to figure out the correct answer.
What needs to happen is a two step process...
First, read the file as binary:
<cffile action="readbinary" file="E:\PATH\TO\FILE\image.jpg" variable="binimage">
Second, convert it back to a string in the 'body':
<cfhttpparam type="body" value="#ToString(ToBinary(binimage))#">
Once I did that, the image was saved properly through the Google API and not garbled since it was only a partial file before.
Hope this helps others.