Insert a Table into an Online DOCX File in C/C++

Employing data tables in your documents can assist in providing a clear visual display of the information. By running this API in C/C++, you can instantly add a new table to an online Word document. You will need to call the Begin Editing function (detailed in an article last week) first to retrieve the editing URL, which you can then input into the example code provided in this tutorial.

To begin the process, you will need to install libcurl into your C/C++ project:

libcurl/7.75.0

With the installation out of the way, we can call the Insert Table function with the following code:

CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.cloudmersive.com/convert/edit/docx/insert-table");
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL, "https");
     struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
     headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
     headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Apikey: YOUR-API-KEY-HERE");
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
     const char *data = "InputFileBytes=%3Cbyte%3E&InputFileUrl=%3Cstring%3E&TableID=ipsum%20o&Path=in%20a&Width=dolore&WidthType=ipsum%20labore&TableRows=%5B%7B%22RowIndex%22%3A-68485824%2C%22Path%22%3A%22ea%22%2C%22RowCells%22%3A%5B%7B%22CellIndex%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Path%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Paragraphs%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingColor%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingFill%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingPattern%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidthMode%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidth%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22CellIndex%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Path%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Paragraphs%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingColor%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingFill%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingPattern%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidthMode%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidth%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%7B%22RowIndex%22%3A1896906%2C%22Path%22%3A%22enim%22%2C%22RowCells%22%3A%5B%7B%22CellIndex%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Path%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Paragraphs%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingColor%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingFill%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingPattern%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidthMode%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidth%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22CellIndex%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Path%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22Paragraphs%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingColor%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingFill%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellShadingPattern%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidthMode%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%2C%22CellWidth%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22%3CError%3A%20Too%20many%20levels%20of%20nesting%20to%20fake%20this%20schema%3E%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%5D&TopBorderType=occaecat%20tempor%20minim&TopBorderSize=92176803&TopBorderSpace=-82878052&TopBorderColor=incididunt%20est%20id%20in%20anim&BottomBorderType=eu%20minim%20incididunt&BottomBorderSize=-13577321&BottomBorderSpace=-66019760&BottomBorderColor=pari&LeftBorderType=esse%20aliquip%20ea&LeftBorderSize=68506178&LeftBorderSpace=-63984894&LeftBorderColor=consectetur%20proident%20ipsum%20esse%20aliqua&RightBorderType=incididunt%20qui&RightBorderSize=-41151400&RightBorderSpace=-69696469&RightBorderColor=est%20culpa%20dolor%20aute%20non&CellHorizontalBorderType=occaecat%20laborum%20pariatur&CellHorizontalBorderSize=-16478298&CellHorizontalBorderSpace=-63090640&CellHorizontalBorderColor=dolore%20in%20aute&CellVerticalBorderType=dolor%20ullamco&CellVerticalBorderSize=-8756623&CellVerticalBorderSpace=-62376751&CellVerticalBorderColor=sit%20quis&StartBorderType=fugiat%20exercitation&StartBorderSize=29001604&StartBorderSpace=-43780251&StartBorderColor=Ut%20aute%20incididunt&EndBorderType=ut%20aute%20laborum&EndBorderSize=-4647052&EndBorderSpace=29504951&EndBorderColor=esse&TableIndentationMode=pariatur%20quis%20esse&TableIndentationWidth=24088640&InsertPlacement=%3Cstring%3E&InsertPath=%3Cstring%3E";
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);
     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

Once your editing is complete, you can call Finish Editing on the output URL to close out the operation.