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How to access Team Folders with Java API ?
Hi, I'm using dropbox V2 API with the Java library: dropbox-sdk-java While I can access all team member's folders I cannot figure out how to access the global Team Folders. Any hint ? Thank you A...
Thank you for posting those samples amedeomantica
Because your Dropbox Team uses team space and member folders I'd like to make a suggestion. First, make sure you have the latest Java SDK (3.0.7).
Then add a call to get the current account information and root namespace:
FullAccount account = adminClient.users().getCurrentAccount(); String rootNS = account.getRootInfo().getRootNamespaceId();
Next, replace your call to listFolder() with this:
final ListFolderResult listFolderResult = dropBoxConnection.memberClient().withPathRoot(PathRoot.namespaceId(rootNS)).files().listFolder(path);
If there are issues with that, you can try varying the composition of your path string - try just using the literal string pathname vs the "ns:" format. Remember that all pathing will be relative to the root namespace (the Team root folder).
What the withPathRoot() method does is to "root" the chained API call at the given namespace. In your case, while you may have the proper namespace ID for the Team Folder, if you are not accessing it via the root namespace ID, it will not be visible to your user. This is because by default all calls without an explicit path root set are rooted in the home namespace (your user folder), not the team root where Team Folders live.
I suggest looking over "User's Home Folder & Team Root Folder" and the "Using a Namespace to Identify Content" in the Namespace Guide:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/namespace-guideHopefully, this gets you past the error.
-Chuck
chirstius
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Are you able to access other Team Folders as that user? Is it just a single specific folder that is failing or all Team Folders?
Also, if you wouldn't mind, can you post a sample of the code you are using to list the Team Folder and a recent error response?
Thanks,
-Chuck
Hi chirstius,
Here the relevant code:
private DbxTeamClientV2 client;
DbxRequestConfig config = DbxRequestConfig.newBuilder("something").build();
client = new DbxTeamClientV2(config, accessToken);
public DbxClientV2 memberClient() {
return client.asMember("dbmid:userIdWithFullAccess");
}
public NamespaceMetadata teamFolderNameSpace() throws DbxException {
TeamNamespacesListResult namespaces = client.team().namespacesList();
for ( NamespaceMetadata namespace : namespaces.getNamespaces()) {
//this correctly list all the available namespaces, including the team folder
log.info(namespace.getName() + "/" + namespace.getNamespaceId));
}
//correctly returns the teamfolder
for ( NamespaceMetadata namespace : namespaces.getNamespaces()) {
if ( namespace.getNamespaceType() == NamespaceType.TEAM_FOLDER ) {
return namespace;
}
}
return null;
}
then:
public Result test() throws Exception {
final NamespaceMetadata namespaceMetadata = dropBoxConnection.teamFolderNameSpace();
if(namespaceMetadata != null) {
String namespaceId = namespaceMetadata.getNamespaceId();
// MEDIA folder exists and I access it from web/desktop (I'm the same user as memberClient)
// But is not working from here
// also tried without "MEDIA" (listing team folder root), no luck
String path = "ns:" + namespaceId + "/MEDIA";
//This works, putting any namespace ID (I can access), except main team folder
//String path = "ns:ANY_OTHER_NAMESPACE_ID_I_CAN_ACCESS";
log.info(path);
final ListFolderResult listFolderResult = dropBoxConnection.memberClient().files().listFolder(path);
listFolderResult.getEntries().forEach(r -> {
log.info(r.getName());
});
}
return ok("ok");
}
error:
Caused by: com.dropbox.core.v2.files.ListFolderErrorException: Exception in 2/files/list_folder: {".tag":"path","path":"not_found"}
at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.DbxUserFilesRequests.listFolder(DbxUserFilesRequests.java:1425)
at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.DbxUserFilesRequests.listFolder(DbxUserFilesRequests.java:1466)
at controllers.HomeController.test(HomeController.java:133)
- chirstius
Thank you for posting those samples amedeomantica
Because your Dropbox Team uses team space and member folders I'd like to make a suggestion. First, make sure you have the latest Java SDK (3.0.7).
Then add a call to get the current account information and root namespace:
FullAccount account = adminClient.users().getCurrentAccount(); String rootNS = account.getRootInfo().getRootNamespaceId();
Next, replace your call to listFolder() with this:
final ListFolderResult listFolderResult = dropBoxConnection.memberClient().withPathRoot(PathRoot.namespaceId(rootNS)).files().listFolder(path);
If there are issues with that, you can try varying the composition of your path string - try just using the literal string pathname vs the "ns:" format. Remember that all pathing will be relative to the root namespace (the Team root folder).
What the withPathRoot() method does is to "root" the chained API call at the given namespace. In your case, while you may have the proper namespace ID for the Team Folder, if you are not accessing it via the root namespace ID, it will not be visible to your user. This is because by default all calls without an explicit path root set are rooted in the home namespace (your user folder), not the team root where Team Folders live.
I suggest looking over "User's Home Folder & Team Root Folder" and the "Using a Namespace to Identify Content" in the Namespace Guide:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/namespace-guideHopefully, this gets you past the error.
-Chuck
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