Permissions: update

Note: Requires authorization.

Updates a permission. Try it now or see an example.

Warning: Concurrent permissions operations on the same file are not supported; only the last update is applied.

Request

HTTP request

PUT https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/fileId/permissions/permissionId

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Path parameters
fileId	string	The ID for the file or shared drive.
permissionId	string	The ID for the permission.
Optional query parameters
removeExpiration	boolean	Whether to remove the expiration date. (Default: false)
supportsAllDrives	boolean	Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives. (Default: false)
supportsTeamDrives	boolean	Warning: This item is deprecated. Deprecated use supportsAllDrives instead. (Default: false)
transferOwnership	boolean	Whether to transfer ownership to the specified user and downgrade the current owner to a writer. This parameter is required as an acknowledgement of the side effect. File owners can only transfer ownership of files existing on My Drive. Files existing in a shared drive are owned by the organization that owns that shared drive. Ownership transfers are not supported for files and folders in shared drives. Organizers of a shared drive can move items from that shared drive into their My Drive which transfers the ownership to them. (Default: false)
useDomainAdminAccess	boolean	Issue the request as a domain administrator; if set to true, then the requester will be granted access if the file ID parameter refers to a shared drive and the requester is an administrator of the domain to which the shared drive belongs. (Default: false)

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

In the request body, supply a Permissions resource with the following properties:

Property name	Value	Description	Notes
Optional Properties
additionalRoles[]	list	Additional roles for this user. Only commenter is currently allowed, though more may be supported in the future.	writable
expirationDate	datetime	The time at which this permission will expire (RFC 3339 date-time). Expiration dates have the following restrictions: They cannot be set on shared drive items They can only be set on user and group permissions The date must be in the future The date cannot be more than a year in the future The date can only be set on drive.permissions.update or drive.permissions.patch requests	writable
role	string	The primary role for this user. While new values may be supported in the future, the following are currently allowed: owner organizer fileOrganizer writer reader	writable
view	string	Indicates the view for this permission. Only populated for permissions that belong to a view. published is the only supported value.	writable

Response

If successful, this method returns a Permissions resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;
import com.google.api.services.drive.model.Permission;

import java.io.IOException;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /**
   * Update a permission's role.
   *
   * @param service Drive API service instance.
   * @param fileId ID of the file to update permission for.
   * @param permissionId ID of the permission to update.
   * @param newRole The value "owner", "writer" or "reader".
   * @return The updated permission if successful, {@code null} otherwise.
   */
  private static Permission updatePermission(Drive service, String fileId,
      String permissionId, String newRole) {
    try {
      // First retrieve the permission from the API.
      Permission permission = service.permissions().get(
          fileId, permissionId).execute();
      permission.setRole(newRole);
      return service.permissions().update(
          fileId, permissionId, permission).execute();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("An error occurred: " + e);
    }
    return null;
  }

  // ...

}

.NET

Uses the .NET client library.

using Google.Apis.Drive.v2;
using Google.Apis.Drive.v2.Data;

using System.Net;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /// <summary>
  /// Update a permission's role.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="service">Drive API service instance.</param>
  /// <param name="fileId">ID of the file to update permission for.</param>
  /// <param name="permissionId">ID of the permission to update.</param>
  /// <param name="newRole">The value "owner", "writer" or "reader".</param>
  /// <returns>The updated permission, null is returned if an API error occurred</returns>
  public static Permission UpdatePermission(DriveService service, String fileId,
      String permissionId, String newRole) {
    try {
      // First retrieve the permission from the API.
      Permission permission = service.Permissions.Get(fileId, permissionId).Execute();
      permission.Role = newRole;
      return service.Permissions.Update(permission, fileId, permissionId).Execute();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      Console.WriteLine("An error occurred: " + e.Message);
    }
    return null;
  }

  // ...

}

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

/**
 * Update a permission's role.
 *
 * @param Google_Service_Drive $service Drive API service instance.
 * @param String $fileId ID of the file to update permission for.
 * @param String $permissionId ID of the permission to update.
 * @param String $newRole The value "owner", "writer" or "reader".
 * @return Google_Servie_Drive_Permission The updated permission. NULL is
 *     returned if an API error occurred.
 */
function updatePermission($service, $fileId, $permissionId, $newRole) {
  try {
    // First retrieve the permission from the API.
    $permission = $service->permissions->get($fileId, $permissionId);
    $permission->setRole($newRole);
    return $service->permissions->update($fileId, $permissionId, $permission);
  } catch (Exception $e) {
    print "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
  }
  return NULL;
}

Python

Uses the Python client library.

from apiclient import errors
# ...

def update_permission(service, file_id, permission_id, new_role):
  """Update a permission's role.

  Args:
    service: Drive API service instance.
    file_id: ID of the file to update permission for.
    permission_id: ID of the permission to update.
    new_role: The value 'owner', 'writer' or 'reader'.

  Returns:
    The updated permission if successful, None otherwise.
  """
  try:
    # First retrieve the permission from the API.
    permission = service.permissions().get(
        fileId=file_id, permissionId=permission_id).execute()
    permission['role'] = new_role
    return service.permissions().update(
        fileId=file_id, permissionId=permission_id, body=permission).execute()
  except errors.HttpError, error:
    print 'An error occurred: %s' % error
  return None

JavaScript

Uses the JavaScript client library.

/**
 * Update a permission's role.
 *
 * @param {String} fileId ID of the file to update permission for.
 * @param {String} permissionId ID of the permission to update.
 * @param {String} newRole The value "owner", "writer" or "reader".
 */
function updatePermission(fileId, permissionId, newRole) {
  // First retrieve the permission from the API.
  var request = gapi.client.drive.permissions.get({
    'fileId': fileId,
    'permissionId': permissionId
  });
  request.execute(function(resp) {
    resp.role = newRole;
    var updateRequest = gapi.client.drive.permissions.update({
      'fileId': fileId,
      'permissionId': permissionId,
      'resource': resp
    });
    updateRequest.execute(function(resp) { });
  });
}

Go

Uses the Go client library.

import (
  "google.golang.org/drive/v2"
  "fmt"
)


// UpdatePermission fetches and updates a permission to the given role
func UpdatePermission(d *drive.Service, fileId string, permissionId string,
    role string) error {
  p, err := d.Permissions.Get(fileId, permissionId).Do()
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("An error occurred: %v\n", err)
    return err
  }
  p.Role = role
  _, err = d.Permissions.Update(fileId, permissionId, p).Do()
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("An error occurred: %v\n", err)
    return err
  }
  return nil
}

Objective-C

Uses the Objective-C client library.

#import "GTLDrive.h"
// ...

+ (void)updatePermissionWithService:(GTLServiceDrive *)service
                             fileId:(NSString *)fileId
                       permissionId:(NSString *)permissionId
                            newRole:(NSString *)newRole
                    completionBlock:(void (^)(GTLDrivePermission *, NSError *))completionBlock {
  GTLQueryDrive *getQuery =
    [GTLQueryDrive queryForPermissionsGetWithFileId:fileId
                                       permissionId:permissionId];
  // queryTicket can be used to track the status of the request.
  GTLServiceTicket *getQueryTicket =
    [service executeQuery:getQuery
        completionHandler:^(GTLServiceTicket *ticket,
                            GTLDrivePermission *permission, NSError *error) {
          if (error == nil) {
            permission.role = newRole;
            GTLQueryDrive *updateQuery =
              [GTLQueryDrive queryForPermissionsUpdateWithObject:permission
                                                          fileId:fileId
                                                    permissionId:permissionId];
            // queryTicket can be used to track the status of the request.
            GTLServiceTicket *updateQueryTicket =
              [service executeQuery:updateQuery
                  completionHandler:^(GTLServiceTicket *ticket,
                                      GTLDrivePermission *permission, NSError *error) {
                    if (error == nil) {
                      completionBlock(permission, nil);
                    } else {
                      NSLog(@"An error occurred: %@", error);
                      completionBlock(nil, error);
                    }
                  }];
          } else {
            NSLog(@"An error occurred: %@", error);
            completionBlock(nil, error);
          }
        }];
}

// ...

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