Image Upload JSON or XML.

gfernandez

We need the json/xml body, what should we do to upload images to Lightspeed? We get the error in bold below (at the end).

We tried the following with no luck:

JSON

endpoint:

https://api.merchantos.com/API/Account/XXXX/Item/1/Image.json

body:

{ 

  "image":"ewogICAgImRlc2NyaXB0aW9uIjogIlRlc3QgSW1hZ2UiLAogICAgIm9yZGVyaW5nIjogMQp9",

  "filename":"279127_01.jpg",

  "data":{ 

     "description":"279127_01",

     "ordering":"1"

  }

}

In image field I am encoding a URL where the image is stored, not sure if I can send the URL itself?

XML

endpoint:

https://api.merchantos.com/API/Account/XXXX/Item/1/Image.xml

body:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<Image xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

    <filename>279127_01.jpeg</filename>

    <description />

    <itemID>1</itemID>

</Image>

No luck in any one (json and xml), I get an error..

{

   "httpCode": "500",

   "httpMessage": "Internal Server Error",

"message": "Argument 1 passed to pos\\image\\ImageStore::upload() must be of the type string, null given, called in /web/cloud/includes/controller/ItemImageBase.class.php on line 130",

   "errorClass": "TypeError"

} 

maurisource

Hi, addressing your JSON solution.

Are you using this in your headers?

'Content-Type: multipart/form-data'

Next you need to POST both Payloads:

"data" : {
    "description": "Test Image",
    "ordering": 1
}
"image" : {
        "filename": "Test Image.jpg",
        "itemID": "835"
}

Good luck! 🤖

Alex Lugo

Hi @gfernandez,

Your URI is correct. The body should be multipart form data. The first part is called "data" and is an XML (or JSON) payload like this:

<Image>
    <filename>2014 red racer.jpg</filename>
    <description>Our new 2014 Racer model in Red!</description>
    <itemID>5</itemID>
</Image>

The second part is called "image" and contains the image itself.

See this page for more details and example code:

http://developers.lightspeedhq.com/retail/endpoints/Account-Item-Image/

gregarican

Here's an example below. Should work fine!

POST https://api.merchantos.com/API/Account/{AccountId)/Image HTTP/1.1

Authorization: Bearer {Token}

Accept: application/xml

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------8d5776e9cab293b

Host: api.merchantos.com

Content-Length: 36105

Expect: 100-continue

-----------------------------8d5776e9cab293b

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<Image xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <filename>IMG_4606.jpg</filename>

 <description />

 <itemID>225</itemID>

</Image>

-----------------------------8d5776e9cab293b

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"; filename="IMG_4606.jpg"

Content-Type: image/jpeg

   {the encoded JPEG data goes here}

-----------------------------8d5776e9cab293b--