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Ricky B.5's avatar
Ricky B.5
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10 years ago

Download files from Dropbox (swift & SDK 1.3.13)

Hello, I noticed that DBRestClient is asynchronous, it means that When I download file from Dropbox, I cannot read it immediately. I put in place a While (to wait upload completed) but I have no...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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10 years ago

This SDK uses delegates, so the expected way to write code is to call loadFile and then continue with the next step in loadedFile. If you take a look at our v2 Swift SDK preview, you'll see that we're moving towards using blocks in the future instead of delegates, which I hope you'll find more intuitive.

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