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Joel T.9's avatar
Joel T.9
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

FileMetadata checksum

Is there something better than file size to use as a checksum? Maybe Sha1 or MD5? I didn't see one on the FileMetadata class. It appears "Rev" changes even when the contents haven't changed (ie. o...
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Team F.1's avatar
Team F.1
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

That is good news, is the content_hash available on the Java API?

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      9 years ago
      Thanks for the report! I believe this is a known issue with the Java SDK release right now. The team is looking into it, and I'll follow up here once I have an update for you.
      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        9 years ago
        This should be fixed in the latest release of the SDK, v3.0.2. Please update and let me know if you're still seeing any issues.

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