Preview a File Version in Edge Drive (REST API: GET)

This operation returns the preview of a specific version of a file in Edge Drive based on the GUID of the file version.

Preview is currently supported for all images and Microsoft Office file types.

By default, you can preview files that have a maximum file size limit of 10 MB.

Request

Syntax

GET webservice/drive/file/version/versionId/action/preview HTTP/1.1
 Host: host name
 Accept: text/html
 Authtoken: authentication token

where <webservice> is the root path used to route the API requests to the Web Server.

For more information, see Available Web Services for REST API.

Request Parameters

Name	Description	Required
versionId	The GUID of the file version that you want to preview. GUID is a unique identifier for a file or folder and remains the same even when you rename or move the file or folder to another path. To retrieve the GUID of all the file versions, see View Versions of a File in Edge Drive.	Yes

Name

Description

Required

versionId

The GUID of the file version that you want to preview. GUID is a unique identifier for a file or folder and remains the same even when you rename or move the file or folder to another path.

To retrieve the GUID of all the file versions, see View Versions of a File in Edge Drive.

Yes

Request Headers

Name	Description
Host	The host name of the Web Server or the Command Center used in the API request.
Accept	The format of the response. Valid values are text/html for non-images or image/jpeg for images.
Authtoken	The authentication token received after successfully logging on. For details on receiving an authentication token, see Authentication.

Response

All image file types are previewed as .jpg files.

For Microsoft office files, the HTML content of the file is displayed as preview.

Examples

Sample Request

GET webservice/drive/file/version/6965bff27253197a97be8bf2eb5b530e/action/preview HTTP/1.1
 Host: client.mydomain.com
 Accept: text/html
 Authtoken: QSDK 38568012f4d1e8ee1841d283a47aa3ba78e124ea58354b5fc60f4dab8a63347d05cf5552484dafda3bfa4c5db84e580b1cb37bcf8e65b39f7f8549a443e6f78a2c7be3f31b3d845e24776c835e498e8e883bb40c46bd15af4f40ca94e823acedcdd4e9659e74b34a07a85c4586cd2ed914b6dce015874783ef768fda78183a4208930954a377f66eb56c8b92cexampl4s437a19317ca6ce7f3233d5a01aca35dbad93468b833f2cf71010809006a937670adce711ca8be46638e8

Sample Response

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
 <head> 
 <meta name="X-Parsed-By" content="org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser"/> 
 <meta name="X-Parsed-By" content="org.apache.tika.parser.txt.TXTParser"/> 
 <meta name="Content-Encoding" content="windows-1252"/> 
 <meta name="ext_name" content="none"/> 
 <meta name="Content-Type" content="text/plain; charset=windows-1252"/> 
 </head> 
 <body style="background:#fff;" background="" > 
 <pre>Demo File Content
 Content 1 
 Content 2
 </pre> 
 </body> 
 </html>

Supported Error Codes

Code	Status	Description
400	Bad Request	The request is missing required parameters or the file name has some unacceptable characters.
204	No Content	Preview is not available for the file.
403	Forbidden	User does not have permissions to preview or the preview is requested for a folder or an unsupported file type.
404	Not Found	The specified file does not exist.