Resume Parser API returns No file uploaded error (PHP)

[helloworld]

I'm trying to post to the Resume Parser service but keep getting a No file uploaded error. I have a feeling that I'm not properly formatted the post data. Any help will be appreciated.

URL:
../resume/parseToCandidate?BhRestToken=xxx&format=PDF"

PHP Code:

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$postfields = array(
	"file" => '@' . $filedata // filedata is the file tmp_name
);

$ch = curl_init();
$options = array(
	CURLOPT_URL => $url,
	CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
	CURLOPT_POST => true,
	CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( "Content-type: multipart/form-data" ),
	CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $postfields,
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$result = curl_exec($ch);

Error:

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HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, X-Requested-With, *
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 04:37:05 GMT
Connection: close

{
  "errorCode" : 400,
  "errorMessage" : "No File Uploaded!!"
}

[lokuber]

Hello @helloworld

Is $filedata the result of file_get_contents(YOUR_FILE) ?
You should also set this :

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Content-Disposition: form-data
Content-Type: PDF (or DOC, DOCX ...)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

I also add populateDescription=html in my URL
Keep in mind that you may have REX errors and should retry parse from BullHorn

[helloworld]

Hi @lokuber,

Thanks for your reply!

No $filedata was the 'tmp_name' property of the posted file. I've tried file_get_contents as well as adding the headers you've mentioned, but it's still not working.

Using Postman, I was able to get a valid response by simply posting to the API with default headers.

How are you posting your file to the API?

[helloworld]

@lokuber I figured it out... The issue was that for PHP5.5+, the function curl_file_create has to be used to post files.

Using the following post fields would work:

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if (function_exists('curl_file_create')) { // php 5.5+
	$curl_file = curl_file_create($filetarget); // $filetarget is the real path of the file after it has been uploaded or copied to the server
} else {
	$curl_file = '@' . realpath($filetarget);
}
$postfields = array('file_contents'=> $curl_file);

Hope this saves people trouble...

Note that the contents of the file doesn't need to be posted because we are using multipart/form-data uploads.