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David W.152
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
API v2 upload_session/append_v2 doc help
Hi dropbox team,
I have no idea how to upload a larger file (>= 1GB) via upload_session/* API.
Can not find any full example code with that.
APIs:
/upload_session/start /upload_session/appen...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
9 years agoHi David, I unfortunately don't have a sample of using upload sessions in bash/curl directly, but here are some examples using the Python and .NET SDKs, which should serve as a useful reference for the necessary logic:
# This uses the Dropbox Python SDK https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python to upload a file to the Dropbox API from the local file as specified by `file_path` to the remote path as specified by `dest_path`. It also chooses whether or not to use an upload session based on the size of the file:
f = open(file_path)
file_size = os.path.getsize(file_path)
CHUNK_SIZE = 4 * 1024 * 1024
if file_size <= CHUNK_SIZE:
print dbx.files_upload(f.read(), dest_path)
else:
upload_session_start_result = dbx.files_upload_session_start(f.read(CHUNK_SIZE))
cursor = dropbox.files.UploadSessionCursor(session_id=upload_session_start_result.session_id,
offset=f.tell())
commit = dropbox.files.CommitInfo(path=dest_path)
while f.tell() < file_size:
if ((file_size - f.tell()) <= CHUNK_SIZE):
print dbx.files_upload_session_finish(f.read(CHUNK_SIZE),
cursor,
commit)
else:
dbx.files_upload_session_append_v2(f.read(CHUNK_SIZE),
cursor)
cursor.offset = f.tell()
f.close()
// This example uses the Dropbox .NET library https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet to upload a file to a Dropbox account, using upload sessions for larger files:
private async Task Upload(string localPath, string remotePath)
{
const int ChunkSize = 4096 * 1024;
using (var fileStream = File.Open(localPath, FileMode.Open))
{
if (fileStream.Length <= ChunkSize)
{
await this.client.Files.UploadAsync(remotePath, body: fileStream);
}
else
{
await this.ChunkUpload(remotePath, fileStream, (int)ChunkSize);
}
}
}
private async Task ChunkUpload(String path, FileStream stream, int chunkSize)
{
ulong numChunks = (ulong)Math.Ceiling((double)stream.Length / chunkSize);
byte[] buffer = new byte[chunkSize];
string sessionId = null;
for (ulong idx = 0; idx < numChunks; idx++)
{
var byteRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, chunkSize);
using (var memStream = new MemoryStream(buffer, 0, byteRead))
{
if (idx == 0)
{
var result = await this.client.Files.UploadSessionStartAsync(false, memStream);
sessionId = result.SessionId;
}
else
{
var cursor = new UploadSessionCursor(sessionId, (ulong)chunkSize * idx);
if (idx == numChunks - 1)
{
FileMetadata fileMetadata = await this.client.Files.UploadSessionFinishAsync(cursor, new CommitInfo(path), memStream);
Console.WriteLine (fileMetadata.PathDisplay);
}
else
{
await this.client.Files.UploadSessionAppendV2Async(cursor, false, memStream);
}
}
}
}
}
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