Create Folder in google drive using JavaScript API

Question

I wrote a javascript method to create folder in google drive.

function createFolder(){
  data = new Object();
  data.title = 'New Folder';
  data.parents = [{"id":jQuery('#parent').val()}];
  data.mimeType = "application/vnd.google-apps.folder";
  gapi.client.drive.files.insert(data).execute(function(fileList){});
}

It creates a file named 'Untitled' with mimeType "application/octet-stream" and parent root directory. This code supposed to create a folder named "New Folder".

Answer 1

Your code is almost correct, you are just not sending the request body correctly. This snippet should work:

function createFolder(){
  data = new Object();
  data.title = 'New Folder';
  data.parents = [{"id":jQuery('#parent').val()}];
  data.mimeType = "application/vnd.google-apps.folder";
  gapi.client.drive.files.insert({'resource': data}).execute(function(fileList){});
}

The body of the request is specified as the resource element.

Answer 2

I solved the issue as given below.

function createFolder() {
   data = new Object();
   data.title = 'New Folder';
   data.parents = [{"id":jQuery('#parent').val()}];
   data.mimeType = "application/vnd.google-apps.folder";
    var request = gapi.client.request({
        'path': '/drive/v2/files',
        'method': 'POST',
        'body': JSON.stringify(data)});
    request.execute(function(){});
}

But I want to know how to do it using gapi.client.drive.files.insert .