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Dan L.10's avatar
Dan L.10
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

HTTP API v2 files/search: not recursive until select top-level folder?

I'm using v2 of the API and running into an unexpected situation with the files/search HTTP endpoint.  Wondering if this is a configuration issue or expected behavior. I'm trying to list of a user'...
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Dan L.10's avatar
Dan L.10
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Just using the straight HTTP files/search endpoint.  I get results like {matches: [], more: false, start: 0} with a path of '', and I get matches when I search in one of the folders.

One possible complication: I use a dropbox business account, and the top-level folders have a different icon (red) than the sub-folders that do work recursively (green):

></p> <p>Not familiar enough with admin side to know what that different icon indicates (a group folder?), but it seems like the search doesn't go down into those. If I start the search inside those it works fine.</p> <p>The /files/list_folder endpoint doesn't seem to have any special identification for those -- they come back as {'.tag': 'folder', name: ...} just like any other folder, so if it is behavior specific to those types of folders, is there any way of identifying them?</p> <p>Does that help?  If not, I'll open up a private API ticket.</p>

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