so sanity checking something I discovered with the

N/file

module. If you use

Nfile.copy()

method, you can include the

conflictResolution

option to dictate what happens when it tries to copy a file to a folder with the same name. However if you use the

Nfile.create()

method, there is no

conflictResolution

option, and appears to ignore it if provided. Based on my testing,

Nfile.create()

will overwrite an existing file with no warnings if the name is the same. Writing a suitelet that has file uploads, and while I was planning to upload directly to a folder with that conflict resolution, it appears that will just overwrite things, and the only safe way is to 1.

Nfile.create()

the file in a temp folder 2. write contents and

Nfile.save()

3. copy file to the actual target folder with the

conflictResolution

option set 4. delete file out of temp folder unless someone has a better way of handling duplicate name file uploads into the same folder

i just add a timestamp of now to my filenames if i need unique names

adding timestamp could work, but I'd rather keep the original filename where possible since it's cross-referenced with other data

yeah i wasn't meaning you're approach here wasn't good, just adding my 2 cents, I think you're approach is great and works around something dumb NS did pretty well 🙂

oh, sorry, wasn't intending to criticizing. I always appreciate the feedback. This is just another one of those "NetSuite is gonna NetSuite" things that I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. To solve in the short-term, I just wrote a small wrapper function in my lib file that does what I listed earlier with a provided File object. I also put a note in to consider timestamp resolution as well if that works better in other situations

you're good, wasn't taking it as criticism, curious to see if anyone else has a different approach tbh

IIRC create is like an

upsert

(in that, it either creates or updates - entirely - the existing file). There are no 'update' functions I'm aware of for arbitrary file types. I think there's one for delimited text only?

Ooo can you update the contents of a file using the

create()

method? I'm going to need to test that. I frequently see people asking how to update file contents.

@erictgrubaugh so I just did a test. Interestingly enough, if you perform a

Nfile.create()

method, and specify the

name

option that is the same as another file within the same folder, it will overwrite the contents, description, even overwrite the file type, but it will not generate a new Internal ID for that file, which just seems wild to me.

You could perform a search upfront to ascertain if the file exists and then move the existing file to another "archive" folder using it's folder property.

we use that characteristic frequently when deploying web apps to the file cabinet - the URLs don't change but you can update the file contents.