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

NameDescription
X-SBG-Auth-Token
required
Your authentication token.
Content-Type
required
application/json

Request body

KeyData typeDescription
file_idstringThe IDs of the file you are updating.
namestringThe new name of the file.
tagsarrayThe tags you want to update.
metadatadictionary of key-value pairsThe 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'}
            }
        }
        }
    ]
}