Change user picture via services 3

Question

I'm update user profile data via services 3 but I have a problem with user picture. I send user picture to my web site via services and it works:

{"fid":"1078","uri":"http://MyDomain/rest/file/1078"}

But how can I pass this "FID" to the user update method ? Which is the correct parameter name ?

Thanks.

M.

Answer 1

The file ID is stored in the picture column of the users table

Foreign key: {file_managed}.fid of user's picture.

So your payload to the update resource would look something like

{
  "uid": "123", 
  "data": { 
    "picture": "1078",
    # rest of user data
  }
}

Answer 2

The fid you pass there is just ignored. You have to write a bit of code in a module to save the fid yourself.

You can find code ready to be copy-pasted here: https://www.drupal.org/node/2471178#comment-9825329

Note: the picture_upload field is processed server-side but it won't actually work either because the file upload module looks at $_FILES and that'll be empty. The $user->picture fid will thus be set to 0 (current avatar, if any, will be removed).