Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Upload Document To Document Library with PUT method




Following is a utility function which you can use to upload a file programmatically in SharePoint document library. It has two parameters. First is the source file path and second is the target document library path. 
Following is an example call to this function:
UploadFileToDocumentLibrary(@”C:\test.txt”@”http://home-vs/Shared Documents/textfile.txt”);
and here is the function
    public static bool UploadFileToDocumentLibrary(string sourceFilePath, string targetDocumentLibraryPath)
    {
        //Flag to indicate whether file was uploaded successfuly or not
        bool isUploaded = true;
        try
        {
            // Create a PUT Web request to upload the file.
            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(targetDocumentLibraryPath);

            //Set credentials of the current security context
            request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
            request.Method = “PUT”;

            // Create buffer to transfer file
            byte[] fileBuffer = new byte[1024];

            // Write the contents of the local file to the request stream.
            using (Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream())
            {
                //Load the content from local file to stream
                using (FileStream fsWorkbook = File.Open(sourceFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
                {
                    //Get the start point
                    int startBuffer = fsWorkbook.Read(fileBuffer, 0, fileBuffer.Length);
                    for (int i = startBuffer; i > 0; i = fsWorkbook.Read(fileBuffer, 0, fileBuffer.Length))
                    {
                        stream.Write(fileBuffer, 0, i);
                    }

                }
            }

            // Perform the PUT request
            WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

            //Close response
            response.Close();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            //Set the flag to indiacte failure in uploading
            isUploaded = false;
        }

        //Return the final upload status
        return isUploaded;
    }

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