Import Media Items in Sitecore Media Library ItemService Restfull API

Question

We are implementing a solution that requires importing media items like images inside Sitecore Media Library. Found it is achievable with Old WebApi, however nothing mentioned equivalent in Sitecore ItemService Restfull API guide.

https://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore7/75/developer's_guide_to_sitecore.services.client_sc75-a4.pdf

Knowing that we are working on Sitecore 9.0.1, Is there a way to achieve this using ItemService Restfull API?

I found the same problem on Sitecore 8 referred to in the following link and the suggested solution was to use the old webapi on Sitecore v8 platform. However my question is: Would this still be the solution in case of Sitecore 9 ?

Creating Media Items using the RESTful ItemService API

Answer 1

For a similar requirement, I have used both Sitecore Powershell and C#.

Here is the code in C#

namespace Sitecore.Extension.ImageUpload
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.IO;
    using System.Text;
    using Sitecore.Configuration;
    using Sitecore.Data.Items;
    using Sitecore.Resources.Media;

    public static class MediaUploader
    {
        public static string TriggerUpload(string directory, string sitecorePath)
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();

            var filesWithPath = DirSearch(directory);

            foreach (var filePath in filesWithPath.Keys)
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"Processing {filePath}");

                var myFile = AddFile(filePath, sitecorePath, filesWithPath[filePath]);

                sb.AppendLine(myFile != null
                    ? $"[SUCCES] File {myFile.Name} added successfully"
                    : $"[FAIL] Fail to add file with path {filePath}");
            }

            return sb.ToString();
        }

        public static MediaItem AddFile(string fileName, string sitecorePath, string path)
        {
            path = path.Replace("\\\\", "\\");

            // Create the options
            MediaCreatorOptions options = new MediaCreatorOptions
            {
                FileBased = false,
                IncludeExtensionInItemName = false,
                OverwriteExisting = false,
                Versioned = false,
                Destination = sitecorePath + "/" + fileName.Replace(".jpg", string.Empty).Replace(".png", string.Empty).Replace(".jpeg", string.Empty),
                Database = Factory.GetDatabase("master")
            };

            // Now create the file
            var creator = new MediaCreator();

            var mediaItem = creator.CreateFromFile(path, options);

            return mediaItem;
        }

        private static Dictionary<string, string> DirSearch(string sDir)
        {
            var files = new Dictionary<string, string>();

            foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(sDir))
            {
                files.Add(Path.GetFileName(f), f);
            }

            foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories(sDir))
            {
                DirSearch(d);
            }

            return files;
        }
    }
}

And the Powershell Script is

$paths = @(
"$AppPath/images/mysite/banners=/sitecore/media library/my site/banners",
"$AppPath/images/mysite/main banners=/sitecore/media library/my site/main banners"
)

foreach($path in $paths){

    $splitter = $path -split "="

    "Executing for $splitter[0]"

    New-UsingBlock (New-Object Sitecore.SecurityModel.SecurityDisabler) {
        New-UsingBlock (New-Object Sitecore.Data.DatabaseCacheDisabler) {
            New-UsingBlock (New-Object Sitecore.Data.Events.EventDisabler) {
                New-UsingBlock (New-Object Sitecore.Data.BulkUpdateContext) {
                    $results = [Sitecore.Extension.ImageUpload.MediaUploader]::TriggerUpload($splitter[0], $splitter[1])
                    $results
                }
            }
        }
    }

    "-----------------------------------------------"
}

In the script, you need to set the path of the image directory where it resides on the server and the destination path.

'image path on server'='destination of images in Sitecore'

Once completed, you need to clear the Sitecore Cache via the cache.aspx page