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Robert S.138
Helpful | Level 7
9 years ago
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Getting File Metadata after doing upload - Android

To upload in Android I am using

sDbxClient.files().uploadBuilder(pathName)
.withMode(WriteMode.OVERWRITE)
.uploadAndFinish(inputStream);

which returns, what? The docs say it returns the server response as a "R".  How do I extract the file metadata from the server response to uploadAndFinish?  I want to get the server modified time from it.

 

I am looking for something equivalent to what I do in Objective-C, where is use the completion block of uploadData:mode:autorename:clientModified:mute:inputData:.

  • R is the response, containing the metadata of the uploaded file. So, for example in this case you could do something like:

     

    FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(localPath);
    try {
        FileMetadata fileMetadata = client.files().uploadBuilder(remotePath)
                .withMode(WriteMode.OVERWRITE)
                .uploadAndFinish(inputStream);
        System.out.println(fileMetadata.getName());
        System.out.println(fileMetadata.getServerModified());
    } finally {
        inputStream.close();
    }
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    R is the response, containing the metadata of the uploaded file. So, for example in this case you could do something like:

     

    FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(localPath);
    try {
        FileMetadata fileMetadata = client.files().uploadBuilder(remotePath)
                .withMode(WriteMode.OVERWRITE)
                .uploadAndFinish(inputStream);
        System.out.println(fileMetadata.getName());
        System.out.println(fileMetadata.getServerModified());
    } finally {
        inputStream.close();
    }
    • Robert S.138's avatar
      Robert S.138
      Helpful | Level 7

      Thanks, it seems to work.  I thought it might be something like that.  But starting from the official docs for uploadAndFinish, all I could see was that it returned type R.  Where in the docs was I supposed to see that R was FileMetadata in this case?

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        UploadBuilder gives you an UploadUploader which is documented as DbxUploader<FileMetadata,UploadError,UploadErrorException>. 

         

        That's definitely unclear/difficult to find if you're looking at uploadAndFinish itself though, so I'll ask the team to clarify that in the documentation. Thanks!

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