Bug when uploading a file to seatable using upload_bytes_file in the python API with a path

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Hello,
when using a path to upload a file, like in the snippet below, the upload succeeds and even generates a valid link suggesting the file is saved. However it doesn’t show up in the file system.

The workaround i found is to replace file_path = "test_path" with file_path = "files/test_path"which then correctly makes the files show up in System folders/files/test_path.

from seatable_api import Base, context

base = Base(context.api_token, context.server_url)
base.auth()

file_name = "example.txt"
file_path = "test_path"
content = b"This is an example text file uploaded to SeaTable."

info_dict = base.upload_bytes_file(file_name, content, 
                                   relative_path=file_path,
                                   file_type='file', replace=True)

print("Upload info:", info_dict)
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Simply skip the relative path. There’s no need to specify it.

Please see Files - SeaTable Developer Manual

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i know its not necessary, but its part of the API and i need it for the use case. Its working with the workaround too, i just wanted to report it as a bug. I thought the forum is the place for that.

4

What do you mean?

5

the bug is that when you want to specify a relative path it needs to include “files/” to work. i reported it because the api and documentation both say you can specify a relative path and because the files do get uploaded to somewhere, they’re just not accessible.

I know i could just upload without a relative path, but then the next person will be confused too. now they might see this forum post and use the workaround, or the bug could be fixed.

Should i write a bug report to customer support or open a github issue?

6

Maybe I am just too stupid to find it, but where do you see that?

7

I now see what you mean.

I guess you are referring to this:

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The path that the upload link call returns includes the “files/” bit (see below).

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im referring to the upload_bytes_file method from this documentation, where the relative file path hasnt been documented (yet). however, there is a bug in the implementation, if you look at my example code above, just adding a relative file path will upload the file to some inaccessible location (except via the url), only when adding “file/” to the file path argument yourself will you get the expected behavior. i dont know whether that bug exists outside of the python api.

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Hi,
we recently published a new seatable_api sdk 3.1.2, which remove the functionality of relative_path。
In the new release, the relative_path only rely on the file_type which you upload.