Databricks - workspace import file api caused a file already exists exception

Question

I'm working on Databricks API that upload a notebook file from local with following api call

In normal behavior this code work just fine. There are some cased that if test.py already in the workspace but with different a language property e.g. SQL. API will throw this exception

{"error_code":"RESOURCE_ALREADY_EXISTS","message":"Path (/Shared/Notebooks/test.py) already exists"

I'm assumed that the "overwrite" should mean to allow any overwrite of duplication file. Have any one experience similar problem?

Answer 1

As @Alex Ott suggested in comments Posting it as an answer to help other community members.

As per this updated documentation

Use overwrite as a Boolean type, not as a string. it will specify whether to overwrite existing object or not.

"overwrite": true

here is request sample:

{
  "path": "string",
  "format": "SOURCE",
  "language": "PYTHON",
  "content": "string",
  "overwrite": true
}