Method: Cloudant::Attachment.make_attachment

Defined in:
lib/cloudant/attachment.rb

.make_attachment(args) ⇒ Object

Accepts a Hash including :doc => the name of the doc to which the attachment will be attached, file_name, the name to be given to the attachment, the doc’s content type, and the attachment’s file type. Returns attachment to be uploaded



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# File 'lib/cloudant/attachment.rb', line 39

def self.make_attachment(args)
  doc_name  = args[:id]
  file_name = args[:name]
  file_type = args[:type]
  file_path = args[:path]

  attachment = {
    "_id" => doc_name,
    "_attachments" => {
      file_name => {
        "content_type" => file_type
      }
    }
  }

  if File.exists?(file_path)
    data = File.open(file_path,'rb').read
    attachment["_attachments"][file_name]["data"] = data
  else
    raise Errno::ENOENT.new('file does not exist')
  end

  attachment
end