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Thomas G.46's avatar
Thomas G.46
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10 years ago

API v2 Optional file id

What reasons could a FileMetadata be returned without a file id?
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Right now, just due to various technical details on the backend, we can't guarantee that every single file will have an ID, though it should be very rare for a file not to have one. We'll be working on improving this though towards the goal of making this guaranteed. 

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