API: Setting metadata


Target URL	`/api.php/Drive/files/metadata/set`
Required scope	metadata
HTTP Method	POST
Output format	JSON

Request Parameters Reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
path	string	Yes	See this page
file_type_name	string	No	The name of an existing metadata file type (such as `Documents`, `Photos`, `Audio`, `Videos` or user defined.)
fields	array	Yes	The keys need to be ids of existing metadata fields. The values can be either strings or an arrays of strings for multivalue fields.

The response

The response contains the results array with information for each submitted field:

Field	Type	Description
success	boolean	`true` if the value was set, `false` if not.
field_id	integer	The metadata field id, for reference.
field_name	string	The name of the field, for reference.
status	string	The result of the action (which can be `skipped`, `updated`, `set` or `deleted`)
msg	string	The textual description of the result of the action.
oldValue	string or array	Self-explanatory
newValue	string or array	Self-explanatory