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tim
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

API v2 equivalent of /1/metadata/link functionality is required

Please let us know the equivalent for API v2 of  /1/metadata/link.   There are countless reasons why this functionality is important for your API -- which you hopefully already know, otherwise I do...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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8 years ago
No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this.
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tim
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Greg I was very frustrated to get this email from Dropbox today. Sure, I spent hours and hours working on my apps' migration to v2 already. And nonetheless, despite my efforts, soon tens of thousands of my users are going to wake up one morning and the app will have stopped working. And there's nothing I can do.

 

Can you please get this endpoint migrated to v2?

 

To provide our developers with the most up-to-date features and support a single, consistent platform, we're turning off API v1 soon. You'll need to fully migrate your app to API v2 before the turn off date.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    8 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback tim. I'll bring this up with the team again.

     

    By the way, we are now reviewing requests for extensions to API v1 access. If you'd like an extension for access to API v1, please open an API ticket and include:

     

    - The app key(s) for the app(s) you need an extension for.
    - The reason(s) for the extension.
    - How long of an extension you're asking for.

    • tim's avatar
      tim
      Explorer | Level 4
      8 years ago

      Thanks, I requested an extension for my app ("Grab for Dropbox" on iOS app store, "Grab Media" on dropbox dev portal)

    • jczorkmid's avatar
      jczorkmid
      Explorer | Level 4
      8 years ago

      I have a very similar need. I've been using /1/metadata/link until now.  I had looked into migrating a while ago, but this feature wasn't in v2.  Now that we're getting down to the wise I tried again to migrate to v2 and I was suprised that there was no way to get the listing any longer.  In fact I didn't even see the equivilant of the 'is_dir' property telling me if the link pointo to a file or directory.  Is this coming any time soon?  v2 API isn't usable for me at all.

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        8 years ago

        jczorkmid I don't have an update on this right now. This would certainly be a legitimate reason to ask for an exception though, so please feel free to do so, as above, if you haven't already.

         

        Also, to determine if the result is for a file or folder, you can check the ".tag" value in the response from /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata. If you're using an SDK, that would be translated into the native type for the response object.

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