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Best Practices for Chunked Upload in Node.js
Hello,
I have had a lot of success so far using the HTTP endpoints to make a web app, but when I tried to switch from a regular upload to a chunked upload I've run into all sorts of problems. P...
When I say that, I mean that when I console.log the session ID I notice that it was changing each time and I never saw the same one twice.
For example,
AAAAAAAAGJXQJ-U67pHOfg
65536
{"expires": "Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:40:19 +0000", "upload_id": "AAAAAAAAGJXQJ-U67pHOfg", "offset": 65536}
[16:40:19.709Z] INFO wt: Chunked upload called for: /tmp/get-pip.py
[16:40:19.709Z] INFO wt:
AAAAAAAAGJkcP0WgJC2wAQ
16384
{"expires": "Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:40:19 +0000", "upload_id": "AAAAAAAAGJkcP0WgJC2wAQ", "offset": 16384}
What I realized was that my chunkedUpload() function was being called over and over again for some unknown reason, and that I was actually getting correct files in my Dropbox so long as they were small enough to fit in a single chunk, so I believe my code is likely mostly correct here but the problem is external to the upload function.
Thus it makes sense why I was getting more than one ID, the upload_session/start endpoint is getting hit multiple times and I need to find a way in my code to make sure it only attempts this once per file.
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