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Steve L.32
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
API V2 analogue of canceFileLoad and cancelFileUpload
In my iOS app using Dropbox API V1 I cancel file uploads and downloads using code similar to this:
[self.restClient canceFileLoad:dBox.cloudURLDropbox];
What is the corressponding V2 method call ... I've spent some time looking throught the docs and for the life of me I cannot see what to do!
Thanks,
Steve
You can save the task returned by the download/upload call, and then call cancel on it:
DBDownloadDataTask *downloadTask = [[client.filesRoutes downloadData:filePath] setResponseBlock:^(DBFILESFileMetadata *metadata, DBFILESDownloadError *downloadError, DBRequestError *error, NSData *fileData) { // ... }]; // ... [downloadTask cancel];
Hope this helps!
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
You can save the task returned by the download/upload call, and then call cancel on it:
DBDownloadDataTask *downloadTask = [[client.filesRoutes downloadData:filePath] setResponseBlock:^(DBFILESFileMetadata *metadata, DBFILESDownloadError *downloadError, DBRequestError *error, NSData *fileData) { // ... }]; // ... [downloadTask cancel];
Hope this helps!
- Steve L.32Explorer | Level 4
Thank you Greg, perfecto! I can cancel uploads and downloads on the iOS simulator. But when I try to run my App on a real device (iPhone 7) I get a dynlib error similar to what happens when archiving the macOS version of my App ): I am again using the Xcode subproject method.
So I am stuck again ...
Thanks,
Steve
- Steve L.32Explorer | Level 4
Hmmm. After hours of hacking I tried adding the framework an an embedded binary, and lo and behold the App now runs on a device:
That seems to give me TWO instances of Linked Frameworks now. In the DB docs, for method #3 Xcode subprojects the instructions are very specific:
1) for iOS add the framework as a Linked Framework only.
2) for macOS add the framework as an Embedded Binary only.
I am confused :)
In any case I am prepared to mark this particular question concerning canceling up/down-loads from Objective-C as answered, leaving aside the unanswered linking questions/problems. As an aside I will note that I can also better read the full Objective-C V2 API docs thanks to you. It was, as they say, hard for me to see the forest for the trees.
Thanks!
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