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download file API stopped working with 400 error
I use download file API , and i got a token , but it's return 400 bea request error
"Error in call to API function "files/download": Must provide HTTP header "Authorization" or URL parameter "authorization"
How do I fix it ?
this is my code ( angular2 )
downloadFile(fileid){
let headers = new Headers();
headers.append('Authorization', 'Bearer ' + this.accessToken);
headers.append('Dropbox-API-Arg','path:'+ fileid);
return this.http.post('https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download',new RequestOptions({ headers: headers ,responseType:ResponseContentType.ArrayBuffer})).map((res) => {
let arrayBuffer = res.arrayBuffer();
let contentType = res.headers.get('content-type');
return {
fileid: fileid,
blob: new Blob([arrayBuffer], { type: contentType })
};
});
1 Reply
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42755495/dropbox-download-file-api-stopped-working-with-400-error ]
The error message is indicating that the access token isn't being supplied with the request properly. I can't offer much help with using the HTTP client in Angular, but here's a simplified version that works for me:
let headers = new Headers(); headers.append('Authorization', 'Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>'); headers.append('Dropbox-API-Arg','{"path": "/test.txt"}'); console.log(headers); http.post('https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download', null, new RequestOptions( { headers: headers, responseType: ResponseContentType.ArrayBuffer} ) ) .subscribe((res) => {console.log(res)});There were two main options:
- You were passing the request options to the data parameter, instead of the config parameter of http.post.
- You weren't passing in valid JSON as the 'Dropbox-API-Arg' value.
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