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suzuka's avatar
suzuka
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Get parent folder

Is there any way to get parent folder from child file or folder metadata.
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

suzuka If you have the metadata for a file or folder, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata, that will include a path_lower, like: 

"/homework/math/prime_numbers.txt"

 

You can parse the path to get the parent folder, e.g., in this example:

"/homework/math"

 

You can then use /2/files/get_metadata again with that path to get the full metadata for that.

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