# POST file with metadata

**URL:** <https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/post-file-with-metadata/3729>\
**Category:** REST API\
**Created:** [March 24, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/post-file-with-metadata/3729 "2017-03-24T12:25:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/post-file-with-metadata/3729/3 "2017-03-27T07:44:51Z")

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Thanks, that’s another nice way of posting a file. But what about the metadata? The API talks about such a field, it being an array of strings. Yet, it does not appear to actually be stored. Does it require a specific backend (you are talking about S3 in your answer, I am using local file storage)? Is it a leftover from the past? A hint to the future?

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