NetSuite Server Side SS2.x Script to upload files to Dropbox - body encoding issue

StefanReeder

Hi team

 

I'm trying to upload a file to Dropbox via the API using a user event (server side) script in NetSuite.

 

I can get a file to be uploaded, but having an issue with the "body" encoding.

 

Thus far, my https request looks like:

 

URL and headers:

 

and the body is being set as follows:

 

var httpsRequest = {
                    method: https.Method.POST,
                    url: request.url,
                    headers: request.headers,
                    body : data.content,
                };

data.content is the file from the NS file cabinet, extracted with myfile.getContents().

 

 

When loading the file it looks like Base64.

 

I have also tried re-encoding the file contents to (UTF_8 to Base64), but the file is still unreadable when synced to the desktop.

 

If i do the request from Postman to Dropbox it works, then when I change the URL to a request.bin, the working "body" is structured like:

 

However, when coming from NetSuite, the same data looks like:

 

So I'm not sure how I set the "body" in my NetSuite request to be received in the same way?

 

Any help would be much appreciated, and save what little hair I have left.

Greg-DB

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64454739/using-server-side-ss2-x-to-upload-files-to-dropbox-body-encoding-issue ]

 

I can't offer help with the NetSuite side of things, as that's not made by Dropbox, but for reference, the /2/files/upload Dropbox API endpoint is a "content-upload" style endpoint, meaning it expects the file data in the HTTPS request body. The data should be sent just as a raw octet-stream (per the "Content-Type"), without any additional encoding. (Dropbox doesn't perform any additional operations, such as encoding/decoding, on the received data before storing it.)

 

So, for example, if your data source is giving you your file data encoded with base64 encoding, you may need to base64-decode it before sending it to Dropbox.