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empty response from copy api
https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/copy_v2
Two cases
1) id of files in both the input "from_path" and "to_path",
2) id of folder in "from_path" id of a file in "to_path".
it gives EMPTY re...
Thanks for the additional details! I'm able to reproduce this now.
It looks like this can happen when you specify a "to_path" value of a ID for a file with an extra path component appended on ("/new" in your case). Since the file ID is already for a file, you can't add an extra path component. (Files can only be nested inside folders, not files.) I'll ask the team to return a better error in this case.
Instead, you should supply the path where you want to put the file copy (like "/folder/newfile.ext"), or a file ID (like "id:FHpvNWBYUsAAAAAAAAAAdQ"), or the ID for a folder with a sub-path appended (like "id:ABC1234"/newfile.ext" where "id:ABC1234" is the ID for a folder).
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the additional details! I'm able to reproduce this now.
It looks like this can happen when you specify a "to_path" value of a ID for a file with an extra path component appended on ("/new" in your case). Since the file ID is already for a file, you can't add an extra path component. (Files can only be nested inside folders, not files.) I'll ask the team to return a better error in this case.
Instead, you should supply the path where you want to put the file copy (like "/folder/newfile.ext"), or a file ID (like "id:FHpvNWBYUsAAAAAAAAAAdQ"), or the ID for a folder with a sub-path appended (like "id:ABC1234"/newfile.ext" where "id:ABC1234" is the ID for a folder).
Hello Greg,
Thank you for the explanation.
We are writing web-services, error handling part. I encountered one more scenario :
If we provide a wrong folder id(which doesn't exist) in "from_path", it gives the proper error message as :
{
"error_summary": "from_lookup/not_found/...",
"error": {
".tag": "from_lookup",
"from_lookup": {
".tag": "not_found"
}
}
}
But when we give a wrong folder id in "to_path", then it gives an empty response body with 500 internal server error.
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- Greg-DB
Thanks for the report! I'll ask the team to fix the error reporting in that case too.
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