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sanjeev_hansanur
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4 years ago

How do get server modified date and time for a file in java using dropbox sdk, wat are sdk methods

Actually we are implement Incremental Crawl or Change log Crawl algorithm in java using sdk.    we want know how to get the modified date and time for file .is there any sdk method for that or is...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

When using the Dropbox API v2 Java SDK, you can get the server and client modified date/time for a file from FileMetadata.getServerModified() and FileMetadata.getClientModified(), respectively. You can get FileMetadata objects from various methods, such as from getMetadata or listFolder/listFolderContinue.
 
When uploading files you can set the client modified date/time using UploadBuilder.withClientModified. It's not possible to override the serverModified date/time though.

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