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Robert S.138
9 years agoHelpful | Level 7
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
Dropbox Staff
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.138Helpful | 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
Dropbox Staff
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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