Social - Share - Add - Binary

Owned by Caleb Burch (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 18, 2014 by Randy Jarrett (Unlicensed)
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/social/share/add/binary/{title}/{description} (POST)

Saves a binary file to the share library.  Typical uses for binary files include widget thumbnail images, widget swf files, and hadoop map reduce jars.

A simple web-based utility is available  for performing many share management activities.

Authentication

Required, see Auth - Login

Arguments

title (required)
 a title of the binary file you are adding

description (required)
the description of the binary file you are adding

binary (required)
byte stream you want to save

Example

See this example in Java for how to share a file. Note: The java example sets the content-type before sending the object to the API.  The api will store whatever content type it gets sent and use that to return the object when you get it at a later time.  If no content type is set the API cannot determine what the stream of bytes means and will return it with a general content type later.  This may cause issues if you are trying to download the files from the API at a later date if the content type is not set.  A good list of content/media types can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type

Example Response
{
    response: {
        action: "Share"
        success: true
        message: "New binary share added successfully. ID in data field"
        time: 10
    }
}