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sjn001tvh
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5 years ago

api dropbox_find_file

Greetings, I have experienced a rather perplexing situation.  I'm using Pipedream workflow steps to initiate Dropbox api calls, and they have been working perfectly.  I have a Dropbox directory where...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The error from the Dropbox API here "Error in call to API function "files/search": request body: missing required field 'query'" indicates that the call was rejected because it did not include the required parameter "query".

 

From the code you shared though, I see you are setting the "query" parameter for the "filesSearch" method, so the SDK should be setting that in the request.

 

Can you check what the value of 'params.query' is? If it's not defined, that could result in this issue.

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