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elsigh
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6 years ago

filesListFolderLongpoll fires changes: without changes within the folder

I have a folder and I get a cursor for it and call filesListFolderLongpoll...   If I go to the parent folder of the folder I'm polling and add a file to it, the longpoll returns for the child fol...
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elsigh's avatar
elsigh
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

In the meantime, what do you think about my idea of preserving the original cursor and just starting the poll again?

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

That seems like a reasonable way to workaround the issue. As long as you don't get and process any new entries and still reach `has_more:false`, it would be fine to fall back to original cursor to avoid making another change, which would trigger that loop again. If/when you do get actual changes returned, you can then process them and save the next cursor. (Saving that new cursor would trigger this issue again, but that would just be the one extra iteration of the loop.)

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