Add a photo to a profile
To add a photo to a profile, send an Atom entry document containing a reference to the image file to the user's Profile.You can only add a photo to a profile if you are the profile owner or an administrator. See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
To add a photo to a profile...
- Get the service document for the person's profile. See Retrieve the Profiles service document.
- Get the URI of the profiles feed which is specified in the href attribute of the collection element in the service document and use it to get the profiles feed for the person.
- Find the <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/image" .../> element returned in the feed. For example:
<link href="https://profiles.enterprise.example.com/profiles/photo.do?key= b559403a-9r32-2c81-c99w-ppq8bb69442j&lastMod=1204662695516" rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/image" type="image" />
- Send a PUT request to the web address specified in the href attribute.
Note: Be sure to make the image file available to the application. For example, if you are writing a Java™ application, you might use a method that extends the EntityEnclosingMethod class to reference the file. Or, you might make the file available by adding it to a file system location that is HTTP addressable.
Table 1. Atom API request details
Method Resource URI Input representation PUT Image file Value of the href attribute of the <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/image" .../> element in the user's profiles feed. "image/jpeg", "image/pjpeg", or "image/gif"
Input
Provide the following items in the HTTP request:
- A "Content-Type" HTTP header indicating the format of the binary image data in the payload
- The binary image file data in the format indicated by the Content-Type header in the payload of the request.
Output
None.Returned HTTP headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Indicates that the request succeeded.
Parent topic
Work with profile photos
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