Publish a file to the Pentaho Server

Follow this process if you want to publish a file to the Pentaho Server:

Click the link that publishes a file to the Pentaho Server: http://localhost:8080/api/repo/publish/publishfile. This publishes the file to the provided path in the repository. Note that the file will be overwritten if the overwrite flag is set to true.

Name
Description
Type
Default

pathId

(colon separated path for the repository file)

formdata

false

fileContents

(input stream containing the data)

formdata

false

overwriteFile

(flag to determine whether to overwrite the existing file in the repository or not)

formdata

false

fileInfo

(information about the file being imported)

formdata

false

Sample code for reference purposes can be found at Github for Pentaho. Look for the file called PublishRestUtil.java under the pentaho-reporting repostitory.

The file is now published to the Pentaho Server and is available to users.

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