files/search results seem to be too inclusive

Hi Greg,

I have raised this as ticket with the business support team and provided logs showing the difference in response from files/search from yesterday and today.

I know there isn't an explicit way to force an exact match but prior to today the matches returned from files/search only ever returned a single match when you searched for a filename that existed somewhere in Dropbox.

My use case is to identify folders created by the Dropbox for Salesforce integration. It creates an ".{{SFID}}.sfdb" file in each related folder, where {{SFID}} is the salesforce ID of the related object.

My search params were very simple;

{
  "path":"",
  "query":"\\.{{SFID}}.sfdb",
  "mode":"filename"
}

This gave a simple method to identify folders based on the existence of special marker files.

Today the search is returning "similar" matches and in many cases the similar matches are quite different from what you searched for. 

This would be ok if you could be sure that the exact match was ranked the highest in the search results but unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case.

In many cases the similar - but often quite different - matches appear higher up in the response set.  In some cases the similar responses are so numerous that the exact match doesn't appear in the first 100 matches and requires further requests to find the match.

I'm currently trying searches using different search query strings to see if I can reliable return the exact match first.