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mikirey
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8 months ago

Dropbox Cursor Behavior

Hello, I'm trying to confirm cursor behavior.  - Is it safe to assume that Cursor is an offset into a transaction log per account, which is a sequential record of changes as they occurred in the ac...
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DB-Des
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8 months ago

Hi mikirey​,

The cursor value used for paginating through results is an encoded string that contains various pieces of information—such as the account ID, app ID, and parameters related to the original request.

The exact structure of the cursor is intentionally abstracted and may change over time, so we recommend treating it as an opaque value that's meant to be passed back to the API as-is, without modification or inspection.

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