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Adrian112
7 years agoNew member | Level 2
Check if a given path is file or folder
Hello
I am trying to use your API and to check if a path is a file or a folder. For folders works ok but when I find in my path a file the request crashes with {".tag":"path","path":"not_folder"} (which is normally ).
Here is my code:
String currentUrl = url != null? url :"";
ListFolderResult result = UploadFileToDropbox.createDropBoxConnection().files().listFolder(currentUrl);
if(result.getEntries().size() >0) {
for (Metadata metadata: result.getEntries()) {
if(metadata instanceof FileMetadata)
System.out.println("file");
}
result.getEntries());
}
How can I check before this line:
ListFolderResult result = UploadFileToDropbox.createDropBoxConnection().files().listFolder(currentUrl);
If the current URL is a file in order to prevent this request to fail.
Thank you.
1 Reply
- Greg-DB7 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
You can catch that not_folder error directly from the listFolder call to detect and handle that. If you do wish to make another call to check it first though, you can do so by calling getMetadata and checking the subtype of the returned Metadata.
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