Uploading Avatars with API

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I’m about to set out on the task of trying to sync leader photos to troop track via API call. Anyone have any experience this part of the API? Even better, a sample of a successful POST request?

It’s not clear to me if I need to POST the actual image data or a url where the image data resides.

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I think I have this figured out. It appears that one needs to POST to /v1/users/{id} a json structure of

{
“user” : {
“profile_photo_file_name” : PROFILE_PHOTO_FILE_NAME,
“profile_photo_file_content” : PROFILE_PHOTO_FILE_CONTENT
}
}

where PROFILE_PHOTO_FILE_NAME is the file name and PROFILE_PHOTO_FILE_CONTENT is the base64 encoded data from the file.

An example, in PHP:

$user_id = 12345;
$image_path = 'path_to_image.jpg';

$headers = array(
	'X-Partner-Token: XXXXXXX', 
	'X-User-Token: XXXXXXX',
);
$api_base = "https://XXXXXXX.trooptrack.com:443/api/v1/";

$url = 'users/'.$user_id;
$post_obj = new stdClass;
$post_obj->user = new stdClass;

$post_obj->user->profile_photo_file_name = basename($image_path);
	
$image_data = file_get_contents($image_path);	
$post_obj->user->profile_photo_file_content = base64_encode($image_data);


$ch = curl_init();


$data_string = json_encode($post_obj);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");                                                                     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);                                                                  

$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_base.$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);		

$string = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);	

$result = json_decode($string);
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