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document file detection workaround #2202
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Expand Up @@ -444,6 +444,8 @@ A more detailed "add" example using curl::

curl -H "X-Dataverse-key:$API_TOKEN" -X POST -F '[email protected]' -F 'jsonData={"description":"My description.","directoryLabel":"data/subdir1","categories":["Data"], "restrict":"true"}' "https://example.dataverse.edu/api/datasets/:persistentId/add?persistentId=$PERSISTENT_ID"

Please note that it's possible to "trick" Dataverse into giving a file a content type (MIME type) of your choosing. For example, you can make a text file be treated like a video file with ``-F '[email protected];type=video/mpeg4'``, for example. If Dataverse does not properly detect a file type, specifying the content type via API like this a potential workaround.

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mheppler May 15, 2019

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Would it be possible to give a more realistic example here and write it in a way that suggests a "best practice", as opposed to a "trick"...??

Example python code to add a file. This may be run by changing these parameters in the sample code:

* ``dataverse_server`` - e.g. https://demo.dataverse.org
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