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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 t...
- 9 years ago
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 Community Moderator
9 years agoR 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.1389 years agoHelpful | 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-DB9 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
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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