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In this tutorial, I will tell you how you can use Spreadshirt API v1 to upload designs. You can later use these designs to create new products. I will first tell you about the preliminaries that need to be met in order to be able to upload designs. I will then tell you about the steps that need to be conducted to upload the designs. And finally, I will show you in detail on code samples what exactly you need to do.

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To create the design, you need to conduct a HTTP POST call on http https://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/designs for example.

Payload could be:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<design xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://api.spreadshirt.net">
        <name>Super cool design</name>
        <description>A super cool design</description>
 </design>

Response contains HTTP Location header:

httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/designs/u100001143

Fetch the XML Data

To fetch the full XML data for the created design, you need to conduct a HTTP GET call on http https://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/designs/u100001143. This XML data contains for example the upload URL:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<design xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://api.spreadshirt.net" weight="0.0" xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/designs/u100001143" id="u100001143">
    <name>Super cool design</name>
    <description>A super cool design</description>
    <user xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/users/37508" id="37508"/>
    <restrictions>
        <fixedColors>false</fixedColors>
        <ownText>true</ownText>

        <obligatory>true</obligatory>
        <movable>true</movable>
        <targetView>0</targetView>
        <minimumScale>100</minimumScale>
        <visible>true</visible>
        <inverted>false</inverted>

    </restrictions>
    <size unit="px">
        <width>1016.0</width>
        <height>895.0</height>
    </size>
    <colors/>
    <printTypes>
        <printType xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/printTypes/1" id="1"/>
        <printType xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/printTypes/19" id="19"/>
        <printType xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/printTypes/17" id="17"/>
        <printType xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/printTypes/10" id="10"/>
        <printType xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/printTypes/21" id="21"/>
    </printTypes>
    <designCategories/>
    <price>
        <vatExcluded>0.00</vatExcluded>

        <vatIncluded>0</vatIncluded>
        <vat>19.00</vat>
        <currency xlink:href="httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/currencies/1" id="1"/>
    </price>
    <resources>
        <resource xlink:href="httphttps://image.spreadshirtspreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/designs/100001143" type="preview" mediaType="png"/>
<!-- upload url !!! -->
        <resource xlink:href="httphttps://image.spreadshirtspreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/designs/100001143" type="montage" mediaType="png"/>
    </resources>
    <created>2010-08-02T08:29:59Z</created>
</design>

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From the fetched XML file, you need to extract the image API URL from design/resources/resource@type=montage. In our example, this is httphttps://image.spreadshirtspreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/designs/100001143.

Upload the Pixel Design

To upload the pixel design, you need to conduct a HTTP PUT call on httphttps://image.spreadshirtspreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/designs/100001143 and upload a PNG design similar to the following one:

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The sample Java code for uploading a design could look as follows:

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  public class DesignUpload {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DesignUpload.class);

    public static final String API_KEY = "...";
    public static final String SECRET = "...";

    public static final String UPLOAD_URL = "httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/designs";
    public static final String UPLOAD_XML = "./src/main/resources/designupload/design.xml";
    public static final String UPLOAD_IMAGE = "./src/main/resources/designupload/design.png";

    public static void main(String[] args)
            throws Exception {
        HttpUrlConnectionFactory urlConnectionFactory =
                new HttpUrlConnectionFactory(API_KEY, SECRET, null);
        HttpCallCommandFactory commandFactory =
                new HttpCallCommandFactory(urlConnectionFactory);

        // 1. create design data using xml
        HttpCallCommand createCommand =
                commandFactory.createFileHttpCallCommand(UPLOAD_URL, HttpMethod.POST, null, new File(UPLOAD_XML), null);
        createCommand.setApiKeyProtected(true);
        createCommand.execute();
        if (createCommand.getStatus() >= 400) {
            throw new Exception("Could not create design xml!");
        }
        log.info("XML location is: " + createCommand.getUrl());

        // 2. get created design xml
        HttpCallCommand getCommand =
                commandFactory.createPlainHttpCallCommand(createCommand.getLocation(), HttpMethod.GET, null);
        getCommand.execute();
        if (createCommand.getStatus() >= 400) {
            throw new Exception("Could not retrieve design xml from " + createCommand.getLocation() + "!");
        }
        String message = (String) getCommand.getOutput();

        // 3. determine upload location
        String searchString = "resource xlink:href=\"";
        int index = message.indexOf(searchString);
        String uploadUrl = message.substring(index + searchString.length(),
                message.indexOf("\"", index + searchString.length() + 1));
        log.info("Upload location is: " + uploadUrl);

        // 4. upload image
        HttpCallCommand uploadCommand =
                commandFactory.createFileHttpCallCommand(uploadUrl, HttpMethod.PUT, null, new File(UPLOAD_IMAGE), null);
        uploadCommand.setApiKeyProtected(true);
        uploadCommand.execute();
        if (uploadCommand.getStatus() >= 400) {
            throw new Exception("Could not upload design!");
        }
    }
}

You can find the sample code on SourceForge's spreadshirtapps project at https://spreadshirtapps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/spreadshirtapps/java/tutorials.

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<?php
    // The design upload script shows you how to create designs on the Spreadshirt platform
    // and upload the corresponding design data using Spreadshirt data and image API.


    // 1. Create design entity via data api
    $url = "httphttps://api.spreadshirt.net/api/v1/shops/40000/designs";
    $header = array();
    $header[] = createSprdAuthHeader("POST", $url);
    $header[] = "Content-Type: application/xml";

    $xml = getFileData("design.xml");

    // Initialize handle and set options
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    // Close the handle
    curl_close($ch);

    $dataUrl = parseHttpHeaders($result, "Location");

    echo "Design URL: ".$dataUrl."\n";


    // 2. Fetch design data to retrieve upload url
    $ch = curl_init($dataUrl);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    // Close the handle
    curl_close($ch);

    $start = strpos($result, "resource xlink:href=\"")+21;
    $end = strpos($result, "\"", $start);
    $imageUrl = substr($result, $start, $end-$start);

    echo "Image URL: ".$imageUrl."\n";


    // 3. Upload design data via image API
    $imageData = getFileData("design.png");

    $header = array();
    $header[] = createSprdAuthHeader("PUT", $imageUrl);
    $header[] = "Content-Type: image/png";

    $ch = curl_init($imageUrl."?method=PUT");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $imageData);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);


    function createSprdAuthHeader($method, $url) {
        $apiKey = "...";
        $secret = "...";
        $time = time()*1000;

        $data = "$method $url $time";
        $sig = sha1("$data $secret");

        return "Authorization: SprdAuth apiKey=\"$apiKey\", data=\"$data\", sig=\"$sig\"";
    }

    function parseHttpHeaders( $header, $headername ) {
        $retVal = array();
        $fields = explode("\r\n", preg_replace('/\x0D\x0A[\x09\x20]+/', ' ', $header));
        foreach( $fields as $field ) {
            if( preg_match('/('.$headername.'): (.+)/m', $field, $match) ) {
                return $match[2];
            }
        }
        return $retVal;
    }

    function getFileData($file) {
        $fp = fopen($file, "r");
        $data = "";
        while(!feof($fp)) {
            $data .= fgets($fp, 1024);
        }
        fclose($fp);
        return $data;
    }
?>

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