Update details of multiple files

This call updates the details for multiple specified files. Use this call to set new information for the files, thus erasing all existing information.

For each of the specified files, the call sets a new name, new tags, and metadata.

Request

https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/bulk/files/update

Example request

POST v2/bulk/files/get
Host: api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov
X-SBG-Auth-Token: 3259c50e1ac5426ea8f1273259740f75

curl -X POST \
  https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.govv2/bulk/files/get \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-SBG-Auth-Token: b04aa2a2e98348a1a3a75ca677ea7fd7' \
  -d '{
    "file_ids" : ["5a97d4741c94edbe85904936", "5a97d4741c94edbe85904909"]
}'

Header Fields

Name	Description
X-SBG-Auth-Token required	Your authentication token.
Content-Type required	`application/json`

Request body

Key	Data type	Description
`file_id`	string	The IDs of the file you are updating.
`name`	string	The new name of the file.
`tags`	array	The tags you want to update.
`metadata`	dictionary of key-value pairs	The metadata fields and their values that you want to update.

Response

See a list of response codes that may be contained in the body of the response..

Response body

The response contains information the updated information for all of the edited files.

Example response body

{
    "items": [
        {
            "resource": {
                "href": "https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/files/5a97d4741c94edbe85904936",
                "id": "5a97d4741c94edbe85904936",
                "name": "1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.b37.vcf",
                "size": 7313069069,
                "project": "rfranklin/my-project",
                "created_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "modified_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "storage": {
                    "type": "PLATFORM"
                },
                "origin": {},
                "tags": [tag1],
                "metadata": {“sample_id”: “sample1”}
            }
        },
        {
            "resource": {
                "href": "https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/files/5a97d4701c94edbe8590471e",
                "id": "5a97d4701c94edbe8590471e",
                "name": "C835.HCC1143_BL.4.contig_1_mpileup_SNPs.filtered.Somatic.hc.and_more.concat.sorted.reordered.vcf",
                "size": 5313069069,
                "project": "rfranklin/my-project",
                "created_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "modified_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "storage": {
                    "type": "PLATFORM"
                },
                "origin": {},
                "tags": [],
                "metadata": {'sample_id”: “sample1'}
            }
        }
        }
    ]
}