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Santhosh T.
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
Get thumbnail method: Is there a difference in the response generated between v1 and v2 of the API
I have been using Dropbox v1 API to access user images. I use them in my Parse.com cloud code (very similar to node.js). Code below for v1:
}).then(function(dropboxToken){ return Parse.Cloud.h...
Santhosh T.
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
Thanks Gregory, but I get two different responses:
Response with v2:
{ status: 200,
headers:
{ server: 'nginx',
date: 'Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:39:26 GMT',
'content-type': 'application/octet-stream',
'content-length': '1731',
connection: 'close',
'accept-ranges': 'bytes',
pragma: 'no-cache',
'cache-control': 'no-cache',
'original-content-length': '1731',
'dropbox-api-result': '{"name": "Logo.jpg", "path_lower": "/logo.jpg", "path_display": "/Logo.jpg", "id": "id:HIY5vU6bHgAAAAAAAAAAAQ", "client_modified": "2015-10-20T03:11:50Z", "server_modified": "2016-02-13T06:08:14Z", "rev": "2a143d0c726", "size": 17150, "media_info": {".tag": "metadata", "metadata": {".tag": "photo", "dimensions": {"height": 157, "width": 225}, "time_taken": "2015-10-20T14:10:53Z"}}}',
'x-server-response-time': '195',
'x-dropbox-request-id': '702fa93503a7e87f5d1f46f63e146a21',
'x-robots-tag': 'noindex, nofollow, noimageindex' },
buffer: <Buffer ef bf bd ef bf bd ef bf bd ef bf bd 00 10 4a 46 49 46 00 01 01 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 ef bf bd ef bf bd 00 43 00 06 04 05 06 05 04 06 06 05 06 07 07 06 ... >,
cookies: undefined,
text: '\u0000\u0010JFIF\u0000\u0001\u0001\u0000\u0000\u0001\u0000\u0001\u0000\u0000\u0000C\u0000\u0006\u0004\u0005\u0006\u0005\u0004\u0006\u0006\u0005\u0006\u0007\u0007\u0006\b\n\u0010\n\n\t\t\n\u0014\u000e\u000f\f\u0010\u0017\u0014\u0018\u0018\u0017\u0014\u0016\u0016\u001a\u001d%\u001f\u001a\u001b#\u001c\u0016\u0016 , #&\')*)\u0019\u001f-0-(0%()(\u0000C\u0001\u0007\u0007\u0007\n\b\n\u0013\n\n\u0013(\u001a\u0016\u001a((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((\u0000\u0011\b\u0000-\u0000@\u0003\u0001"\u0000\u0002\u0011\u0001\u0003\u0011\u0001\u0000\u001f\u0000\u0000\u0001\u0005\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0001\u0002\u0003\u0004\u0005\u0006\u0007\b\t\n\u000b\u0000\u0010\u0000\u0002\u0001\u0003\u0003\u0002\u0004\u0003\u0005\u0005\u0004\u0004\u0000\u0000\u0001}\u0001\u0002\u0003\u0000\u0004\u0011\u0005\u0012!1A\u0006\u0013Qa\u0007"q\u00142\b#B\u0015R$3br\t\n\u0016\u0017\u0018\u0019\u001a%&\'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz\u0000\u001f\u0001\u0000\u0003\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0001\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0001\u0002\u0003\u0004\u0005\u0006\u0007\b\t\n\u000b\u0000\u0011\u0000\u0002\u0001\u0002\u0004\u0004\u0003\u0004\u0007\u0005\u0004\u0004\u0000\u0001\u0002w\u0000\u0001\u0002\u0003\u0011\u0004\u0005!1\u0006\u0012AQ\u0007aq\u0013"2\b\u0014B\t#3R\u0015br\n\u0016$4%\u0017\u0018\u0019\u001a&\'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz\u0000\f\u0003\u0001\u0000\u0002\u0011\u0003\u0011\u0000?\u0000*\u001b{fn\'&øR\\8\u0007@\u0013W|DŮ?d}ޕ\u0011`\u00032Xee\u000f8 8A㟈W\u001a$\u0016\u000f\u000fx\u000b\u001a72\r@#\u0019PU,v\u0011hH\u001b\u000e\u0002\\\u0005\u0003o\u0000~"\\%\u0002O%\u0013fs<\u0001TX=\u000f$G82vy\u0003o\u0004+m>\u001cy\u001cm\u000616-\u0018\'cs7\u0019ۏl{P<!Xj\u001e\u0013^\u0015It\u0003f\'~I\u001d:\u0010(\u0003+c^\nӮ|Sm5K\b\u000e@;GL+\u0002\u00174\u0017/\rx\u000eY\\\u0013K,yC\u000fdu\fz\u0005@1Ӯx\u0000\u0006.\u0019;$lI¶w=GN6h\u0002C4u/\bLĖHXJ\\ʹ\u001f19\'WZ\'؛:Ֆ`pýؖ!W\'$\u0002\u0007}\u0005x╶rF\'\u001a\u000bWM[.X\u00002U3ڽÝWZEŅڮdR\u0019W3Pmb\f\u0000(\u00033}zSk^]ݸ\u000339z96-<SivJ-\u001eh̙NNpIG\u0019O\u001e/-\u0001m\u000fb6V>cg \u000e\u0015\u001f\u000e2\u0010}]Lc\u0011[\u0000\u0002x\u0004\u00015X۵qvcS2Fە_\u001f0\u0004\u0000皳E\u0014\u0001R8/\'\u0010H~э?|e .\u0006B\u001e3V?\u001cW\u0000eS&\u0012p0Y\u0004jqw\u0001"8\r\u0000[2\u0014W\'\u0003Zj&o0ā3?\u0003@\u001c=\u0004-=joo5($2\tH;v\u0000NpFy8i>:/M\u001e-\u0012g\u001f̌qt\u0007}3ZMte!\\\u000b:t:h\u001e7?Ƞ\u000e"ǚϑqqhmZ\u001c\u0019\u0002q\u001e;Xu\u0014V6.&v";y\u0000\u00024#mnj\u0007v#\u001b2\teIn\u0014sF}SV;\u0004\b[c,u\u0018@\u001c? n.4-b\u001bV%Df\nr\u0000n\u0019?0\u001di6Q\u000f\u0002lc\u001b{ctx\u0012ͽ21偼`{Trn6\u000f.X\u0001?*\u0000' }
and for v1, I get:
{"uuid":"99952763-ebbc-444d-0860-50ab433959cf","status":200,"headers":{"Connection":"keep-alive","Content-Length":"1731","Content-Type":"image/jpeg","Date":"Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:10:51 GMT","Server":"nginx","X-Robots-Tag":"noindex, nofollow, noimageindex","X-Server-Response-Time":"206","cache-control":"no-cache","pragma":"no-cache","x-dropbox-metadata":"{\"rev\": \"5737ee9e71\", \"thumb_exists\": true, \"photo_info\": {\"lat_long\": null, \"time_taken\": \"Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:10:53 +0000\", \"image_dimensions\": [225, 157]}, \"path\": \"/TestParse/Logo.jpg\", \"is_dir\": false, \"client_mtime\": \"Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:11:50 +0000\", \"icon\": \"page_white_picture\", \"read_only\": false, \"modifier\": null, \"bytes\": 17150, \"modified\": \"Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:12:07 +0000\", \"size\": \"16.7 KB\", \"root\": \"dropbox\", \"mime_type\": \"image/jpeg\", \"revision\": 87}","x-dropbox-request-id":"db555834aa280849a9ff7ce66bcfcd31","x-dropbox-thumbcachehit":"1"},"text":"\u0000\... (truncated)
"buffer":{"0":255,"1":216,"10":0,"100":19,"101":10,"102":10,"103":19,"104":40,"105":26,"106":22,"107":26,"108":40,"109":40,"11":1,"110":40,"111":40,"112":40,"113":40,"114":40,"115":40,"116":40,"117":40,"118":40,"119":40,"12":1,"120":40,"121":40,"122":40,"123":40,"124":40,"125":40,"126":40,"127":40,"128":40,"129":40,"13":0,"130":40,"131":40,"132":40,"133":40,"134":40,"135":40,"136":40,"137":40,"138":40,"139":40,"14":0,"140":40,"141":40,"142":40,"143":40,"144":40,"145":40,"146":40,"147":40,"14... (truncated)
As noted before, I used the buffer values to convert my responses to base64. Now since the buffer values are different, I am struggling to get the right base64 string. Can you please let me know how I would get the base64 string from the buffer values which are now in hexadecimal?
Or is it possible to get base64 from the text body? If yes, how?
Many Thanks.
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