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Filenames beginning with dot not found
I've been working with the SwiftyDropbox API, and until recently everything was fine.
But some time in the past few months, I'm now getting incorrect results when I search for a filename that begin...
Further update: this behavior is visible through the HTTP endpoints as well, using the API Explorer, so it's not a Swift problem.
It would appear to be a server-side bug in regular-expression handling. Note that searching for "\.empfs1.xml" does find .empfs1.xml -- and also empfs1.xml (without the dot) and new.empfs1.xml. So I suppose I can work around this by checking the multiple results to see if one is actually valid...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the report! Are you still seeing this now? I just tried uploading a file named ".empfs1.xml" and I was able to find it by searching via the API with a query ".empfs1.xml", so it could have been a transient issue.
If you are still seeing this problem though, please open an API ticket with the following additional details so we can check on this for you:
- the affected account ID(s)
- the 'searchPath' value you're using
- the search results you get
- the full path of the '.empfs1.xml' file that you expect but is missing from the results
Thanks in advance!
(By the way, to clarify, the "query" parameter does not support regular expressions.)
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