I'm trying to replace a PDF file in a Google Drive Folder using a script. Since GAS does not provide a method for adding revisions (versions), I'm trying to replace the content of the file, but all I get is a blank PDF.
I can't use the DriveApp.File class since our Admin has disabled the new API, so I have to use DocsList.File instead.
Input:
OldFile.pdf (8 pages)
NewFile.pdf (20 pages)
Output expected:
OldFile.pdf with the same content as NewFile.pdf
Real Output:
OldFile.pdf with 20 empty pages.
Process:
var old = DocsList.getFileById("####");
var new = DocsList.getFileById("####");
old.replace(new.getContentAsString());
Any ideas, please?
Thanks a lot in advance.
PS.: I also tried calling old.clear() first, but I'd say the problem lies on the getContentAsString method.
The Advanced Drive Service can be used to replace the content of an existing PDF file in Google Drive. This answer also includes an example of how to update a PDF file in a shared Drive.
function overwriteFile(blobOfNewContent,currentFileID) {
var currentFile;
currentFile = DriveApp.getFileById(currentFileID);
if (currentFile) {//If there is a truthy value for the current file
Drive.Files.update({
title: currentFile.getName(), mimeType: currentFile.getMimeType()
}, currentFile.getId(), blobOfNewContent);
}
}
References
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/advanced/drive
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/files/update
An example of using with a shared Drive:
Drive.Files.update({ title: currentFile.getName(), mimeType:
currentFile.getMimeType() }, currentFile.getId(), blobOfNewContent,
{supportsTeamDrives: true});
Try to get it as a blob datatype instead.
Related
I'm fairly new to Dart and Flutter, and I'm having trouble to overwrite an existing assets image from a source image.
My attempt:
try {
File localFile = File('assets/images/myImage.png');
localFile.writeAsBytesSync(originFile.readAsBytesSync());
catch (e) {
log(e.toString());
}
I get:
[log] FileSystemException: Cannot open file, path = 'assets/images/myImage.png' (OS Error: No such file or directory, errno = 2)
I did define the assets folder in pubspec.yaml:
assets:
- assets/images/
Ok, so I've read somewhere that the asset file can be accessed like this:
import 'package:flutter/services.dart' show rootBundle;
final byteData = await rootBundle.load('assets/images/myImage.png');
But I don't know how to convert byteData to a File object that represents the actual file.
I think I'm missing something very basic here. Or maybe is there is a proper way to do this that has nothing to do with this approach?
Please help.
Thanks in advance!
If you want to write a file on a user device you should look here: https://flutter.dev/docs/cookbook/persistence/reading-writing-files
Shared preferences are a space in a phone where you app can write, so it's exactly what you want!
Assets are part of you app and are not meant to be modified within the app.
During a build, Flutter places assets into a special archive called
the asset bundle that apps read from at runtime. According to the flutter website
Hope this helps!
I'm actually struggeling with a problem handling some kml files with google map in my Javascript application.
I wrote a method with that I'm reading a KML file from an URL or my local file system and storing the content as a String in a Database. Now i would like to activate layers that are stored in my db by clicking a button. Everything is fine up to here.
In every example i can find they are only using the url-attribute of a KmlLayer by passing an url to a KML-File.
like here:
var ctaLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer({
url: 'http://googlemaps.github.io/js-v2-samples/ggeoxml/cta.kml',
map: map
});
But since my files are stored as Strings in my db I don't have an url to a file, only the content. I can't find a way to only pass the XML-String as content.
Somebody here who can help?
Maybe someday somebody will struggle with a similar problem. The solution was a little bit tricky. I needed to create a Blob with the content of my String. With the blob I created a file and packed it into an URL. This URL you can pass to your kml parser. I used https://github.com/geocodezip/geoxml3 for that.
vm.activeLayers.forEach(function(value, key) {
var file = new Blob([value], {type: 'kml'})
var url = URL.createObjectURL(file);
var myParser = new geoXML3.parser({
map : map
});
myParser.parse(url);
})
I am using the PDF.js library to display PDf files within my site (using the pdf_viewer.js to display documents on-screen), but the PDF files I am displaying are confidential and I need to be able to show them within the site but block non-authorized public folks from being able to view the same files just by typing in theie URLs and seeing them show up right in their browser.
I tried to add the Deny from all line in my htaccess file, but that also of courfse blocked the viewer from showing the docs, so that seems to be a no-go. Clearly anyone could simply look at inspector and see the pdf file that is being read by the viewer, so it seems a direct URL is not going to be secure in any way.
I did read about PDF.js being able to read binary data, but I have no knowledge of how I might read in a PDF in my own file system and prep it for use by the library, eveen if that means it is all a bit slower in loading to get the file contents and prep it on the fly.
Anyone have a solution that allows PDFJS to work without revealing the source PDF URL, or to otherwise read the file using local file calls?
Okay, after some testing, the solution is very easy:
Get the PDF data using an Ajax-called function that can figure out what actual file is to be viewed.
In that PHP file...
Read the file into memory, using fopen and fread normally.
Convert to base64 using the base64_encode
Pass that string back to the calling Javascript.
In the original calling function, use the following to convert the string to a Uint array and then pass that to the PDFJS library...
## The function that turns the base64 string into whatever a Uint8 array is...
function base64ToUint8Array(base64) {
var raw = atob(base64);
var uint8Array = new Uint8Array(raw.length);
for (var i = 0; i < raw.length; i++) {
uint8Array[i] = raw.charCodeAt(i);
}
return uint8Array;
}
## the guts that gets the file data, calls the above function to convert it, and then calls PDF.JS to display it
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: {file: <a file id or whatever distinguishes this PDF>},
url: 'getFilePDFdata.php', (the PHP file that reads the data and returns it encoded)
success: function(base64Data){
var pdfData = base64ToUint8Array(base64Data);
## Loading document.
PDFJS.getDocument(pdfData).then(function (pdfDocument) {
## Document loaded, specifying document for the viewer and
## the (optional) linkService.
pdfViewer.setDocument(pdfDocument);
pdfLinkService.setDocument(pdfDocument, null);
});
}
});
I am trying to copy one jpg file from one folder into another in PhoneGap. The method I used is fs.download. However I got the error that the source url is unsupported. Here are the source and destination files.
source = "/var/mobile/Applications/9483756B-8D2A-42C5-8CF7-8D76AAA8FF2C/Shift.app/iqedata/5977e2e9239649d5a7e3b8a54719679f/06e2b8896e51472789fcc27575631f94.jpg";
target = "/var/mobile/Applications/9483756B-8D2A-42C5-8CF7-8D76AAA8FF2C/Documents/memoir/5977e2e9239649d5a7e3b8a54719679f.jpg";
Can anybody help me to implement the copyto method which I think should be the correct one to use to solve this problem? I only got the full path of both source and destination.
Thanks.
You want to use the copyTo method of the FileEntry object:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.6.0/cordova_file_file.md.html#FileEntry
Using copyTo method wasn't always working for me, the moveTo method worked though.
The below code, copies a file from the www folder to the /Library/LocalDatabase folder:
function copyToLocation(dbName){
console.log("Copying :"+dbName);
window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(cordova.file.applicationDirectory+ "www/"+dbName,function (fileEntry)
{
window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(cordova.file.applicationStorageDirectory + "Library/LocalDatabase/",function (directory)
{
fileEntry.moveTo(directory, 'new_dbname.db',function(){
console.log('DB Loaded!');
},
function()
{
console.log('Unable to load DB');
});
//},null);
},null);
}, null);
}
How do I write a Google Apps Script that deletes files?
This finds files:
var ExistingFiles = DocsList.find(fileName);
But DocsList.deleteFile does not exist to delete a file.
Is there a way to move those files to another Folder or to Trash?
The other workaround I would consider is to be able to override an existing file with the same name.
Currently when I want to create a file with a name already used in MyDrive then it creates a second file with the same name. I would like to keep 1 file (the new one is kept and the old one is lost).
There are 3 services available to delete a file.
DriveApp - Built-in to Apps Script
Advanced Drive Service - Built-in to Apps Script but must be enabled. Has more capability than DriveApp
Google Drive API - Not built-in to Apps Script, but can be used from Apps Script using the Drive REST API together with UrlFetchApp.fetch(url,options)
The DocsList service is now deprecated.
The Advanced Drive Service can be used to delete a file without sending it to the trash. Seriously consider the risk of not being able to retrieve the deleted file. The Advanced Drive Service has a remove method which removes a file without sending it to the trash folder. Advanced services have many of the same capabilities as the API's, without needing to make an HTTPS GET or POST request, and not needing an OAuth library.
function delteFile(myFileName) {
var allFiles, idToDLET, myFolder, rtrnFromDLET, thisFile;
myFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById('Put_The_Folder_ID_Here');
allFiles = myFolder.getFilesByName(myFileName);
while (allFiles.hasNext()) {//If there is another element in the iterator
thisFile = allFiles.next();
idToDLET = thisFile.getId();
//Logger.log('idToDLET: ' + idToDLET);
rtrnFromDLET = Drive.Files.remove(idToDLET);
};
};
This combines the DriveApp service and the Drive API to delete the file without sending it to the trash. The Drive API method .remove(id) needs the file ID. If the file ID is not available, but the file name is, then the file can first be looked up by name, and then get the file ID.
In order to use DriveAPI, you need to add it through the Resources, Advanced Google Services menu. Set the Drive API to ON. AND make sure that the Drive API is turned on in your Google Cloud Platform. If it's not turned on in BOTH places, it won't be available.
Now you may use the following if the file is as a spreadsheet, doc etc.:
DriveApp.getFileById(spreadsheet.getId()).setTrashed(true);
or if you already have the file instead of a spreadsheet, doc etc. you may use:
file.setTrashed(true);
This code uses the DocsList Class which is now deprecated.
try this :
function test(){
deleteDocByName('Name-of-the-file-to-delete')
}
function deleteDocByName(fileName){
var docs=DocsList.find(fileName)
for(n=0;n<docs.length;++n){
if(docs[n].getName() == fileName){
var ID = docs[n].getId()
DocsList.getFileById(ID).setTrashed(true)
}
}
}
since you can have many docs with the same name I used a for loop to get all the docs in the array of documents and delete them one by one if necessary.
I used a function with the filename as parameter to simplify its use in a script, use test function to try it.
Note : be aware that all files with this name will be trashed (and recoverable ;-)
About the last part of your question about keeping the most recent and deleting the old one, it would be doable (by reading the last accessed date & time) but I think it is a better idea to delete the old file before creating a new one with the same name... far more logical and safe !
Though the The service DocsList is now deprecated, as from the Class Folder references, the settrashed method is still valid:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/folder#settrashedtrashed
So should work simply this:
ExistingFiles.settrashed(true);
Here is another way to do it without the need of Drive API. (based on Allan response).
function deleteFile(fileName, folderName) {
var myFolder, allFiles, file;
myFolder = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(folderName).next();
allFiles = myFolder.getFilesByName(fileName);
while (allFiles.hasNext()) {
file = allFiles.next();
file.getParents().next().removeFile(file);
}
}
Here is a slightly modified version using the above. This will backup said file to specified folder, also remove any old previous backups with the same name so there are no duplicates.
The idea is here to backup once per day, and will retain 1 month of backups in your backup folder of choice. Remember to set your trigger to daily in your Apps Script.
https://gist.github.com/fmarais/a962a8b54ce3f53f0ed57100112b453c
function archiveCopy() {
var file = DriveApp.getFileById("original_file_id_to_backup");
var destination = DriveApp.getFolderById("backup_folder_name");
var timeZone = Session.getScriptTimeZone();
var formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(),timeZone,"dd"); // 1 month backup, one per day
var name = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getName()+"_"+formattedDate;
// remove old backup
var allFiles = destination.getFilesByName(name);
while (allFiles.hasNext()) {
var thisFile = allFiles.next();
thisFile.setTrashed(true);
};
// make new backup
file.makeCopy(name,destination);
}