I had a problem where Postman was turning my POST requests into GET requests when the API had a redirect and I had to change that behaviour in a setting. This may be the case in your C# library as well.

I would recommend checking what you get in the body/headers of the response and see if it matches the GET request for the endpoint. It might also be worth checking if there's a way to disable automatic redirects in your C# library.

We are bulk updating profile photos successfully for our students through python (requests library). One thing that stands out to me in your code as a possible issue is this line:

form.Add(content, "profileImage", fileName); This "fileName" might have to be the full path to the file instead of just the name, so "~/Photos/" + fileName.

I can share our python code with you if that is helpful.

@Kyle.L.2357

I apologize for the delay, I didn't get a notification. I'll post my python code below, it's edited a little because we have some of these values set as variables in our config file.

I looked again at our code, this was written a few years ago at this point, and our "filename" variable is just the filename and extension just like your code and "filepath" is the full path. So that's definitely not your issue. I am wondering if maybe it's a scope and/or permission issue? I'm using 'users:profile:read users:userdata:read' for the scope. I will try to get a screenshot of our permissions for this user account we use for this process. I do remember we needed to enable some search permission to be able to set the profile photo, which doesn't make sense.

def photo_update_request(access_token, api_service_info, filename, filepath, brightspace_user_id, org_defined_id):

    user_profile_image_url = "https://brightspace.marist.edu/d2l/api/lp/1.35/profile/user/{0}/image"


    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


    with open(filepath, 'rb') as file_obj:

        files = [

            ('profileImage', (filename, file_obj, 'image/jpeg'))

        ]


        current_user_profile_image_url = user_profile_image_url.format(brightspace_user_id)

        response = requests.post(current_user_profile_image_url, files=files, auth=BearerTokenAuth(access_token))


        if response.status_code != 200:

            log_str_map = f"Unable to update user's profile image, skipping. (Status code: {response.status_code})"

            log_str = f"{org_defined_id}: Unable to update user's profile image, skipping. (Status code: {response.status_code})"

            logger.info(log_str)

            return False, log_str_map


        log_str_map = "Successfully updated user's profile image"

        log_str = f"{org_defined_id}: Successfully updated user's profile image"

        logger.info(log_str)


    return True, log_str_map

These are all under the "Users" tool when editing permissions.