Creating a Document Set with the Sharepoint 2013 REST API

[Ross McLean]

Is there (or does anyone at Microsoft know if there will be) support for creating Document Sets using the 2013 version of the REST API?

I've successfully used the 2010 /_vti_bin/listdata.svc/ service, but for future proofing, wonder if I should be moving on to something like like the /_api/web/folders endpoints.

Thanks,

Ross

[#2]

You may use following end point which allows POST request. 

"<app web url>/_api/SP.AppContextSite(@target)/web
    /getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/Shared Documents')/folders
    ?@target='<host web url>'"

If you finding more information on this, following link would be beneficial. 

REST API Reference

[#3]

Hi Kushan, thanks for the reply. Using the /_api/Web/Folders/add I can create a standard folder. I can then use the endpoint /_api/Web/Lists/GetByTitle to modify the ContentTypeId to that of the Document set. The last piece of the puzzle seems to either be setting the ProgId to SharePoint.DocumentSet, or HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type to SharePoint.DocumentSet, however both of these properties seems to resist being updated by REST.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

function getListUrl(webUrl,listName,success, error)
{
var headers = {};
$.ajax({
url: webUrl + "/_api/lists/getbytitle('" + listName + "')/rootFolder?$select=ServerRelativeUrl",
type: "GET",
contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose",
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
},
success: function(data){
success(data.d.ServerRelativeUrl);
},
error: error
});
}

function createFolder(webUrl,listName,folderName,folderContentTypeId, success, error)
{
getListUrl(webUrl,listName,
function(listUrl) {
var folderPayload = {
'Title' : folderName,
'Path' : listUrl
};

//Create Folder resource
$.ajax({
url: webUrl + "/_vti_bin/listdata.svc/" + listName,
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose",
data: JSON.stringify(folderPayload),
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
"Slug": listUrl + "/" + folderName + "|" + folderContentTypeId
},
success: function (data) {
success(data.d);
},
error: error
});
},
error);
}


function createDocumentSet(webUrl,listName,folderName, success, error)
{
createFolder(webUrl,listName,folderName,'0x0120D520', success, error);
}



createDocumentSet(_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl,'Documents','Orders',
function(folder){
console.log('Document Set ' + folder.Name + ' has been created succesfully');
},
function(error){
console.log(JSON.stringify(error));
}
);