PowerShell equivalent for Python's requests.post with both data and files

Question

I'm trying to make a PowerShell equivalent for this Python code:

import requests
requests.post('http://someCKANsite/api/action/resource_create',
              data={"package_id":"my_dataset"},
              headers={"X-CKAN-API-Key": "21a47217-6d7b-49c5-88f9-72ebd5a4d4bb"},
              files=[('upload', file('/path/to/file/to/upload.csv'))])

I have tried:

Invoke-WebRequest -Method Post -Uri http://someCKANsite/api/action/resource_create -Headers $headers -InFile $myfile -Body $rcbody -ContentType "multipart/form-data"

...with $headers containing my X-CKAN-API-Key and $rcbody containing the package_id . But I get the error Invoke-WebRequest : The cmdlet cannot run because the following conflicting parameters are specified: Body and InFile. Specify either Body or Infile, then retry. Invoke-WebRequest : The cmdlet cannot run because the following conflicting parameters are specified: Body and InFile. Specify either Body or Infile, then retry.

I've tried putting ?package_id=... on the end of the Uri, but that doesn't work. I've tried all kinds of combinations in the Advanced REST client , but also to no avail. I've also tried Invoke-RestMethod , but it has the same hassles.

Answer 1

You can't specify both; as the -InFile basically just adds the content of the file as a body (which would conflict) with your existing body.

You can however, construct the body with your file yourself doing something like this (same for invoke-webrequest/or invoke-restmethod):

$body = "upload=$(get-content c:\yourfile.csv -Enc Byte -raw)&package_id=my_dataset"
Invoke-RestMethod -Method $method -Headers $headers -Uri ($server+$uri) -body $body

Here I just added more parameters in your body by concatting them (&package_id=). You should know how the server processes your parameters.

Are they read from the body (as I'm assuming here) or as a part of the url string? You can easily see how the request is being passed (using eg fiddler) when you invoke the python and then adjust the invoke-webrequst/invoke-restmethod thereafter.

Hope this helps:)