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".

Claudio Cherubino · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-18 16:06:48Z

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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.

edited Oct 18, 2012 at 16:06

answered Oct 18, 2012 at 4:11

Claudio Cherubino

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Mohammed H Over a year ago

Yup, It works! This is what I want. (There is a small syntax error; You forgot to add curly bracket around "'resource': data". Please update the answer.)

Mohammed H Over a year ago

Wow! I got the answer from Google Team!

Claudio Cherubino Over a year ago

Thank, I updated my answer. My team and I monitor the google-drive-sdk tag and are very happy to help! :)

Mohammed H · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-17 09:39:36Z

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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.

edited Oct 17, 2012 at 9:39

answered Oct 17, 2012 at 9:34

Mohammed H

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JRowan Over a year ago

just would like to update with 'path': '/upload/drive/v2/files'

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