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Nick A.23
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10 years ago

In the DropboxSDK for iOS, are DBRestClients required to be an instance variable of a UIViewController?

I am using the DropboxSDK for iOS, and I am trying to have a Dropbox fetch occur inside viewDidAppear(animated:). However, whenever I create a local DBRestClient inside viewDidAppear and call loadMet...
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Steve M.
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10 years ago

Your DBRestClient instance presumably went out of scope at the end of viewWillDisappear, so the object got deleted. Although you don't necessarily need it to be an instance variable on a UIViewController, it does need to be retained somehow.

I should point out that the API you're using has been deprecated and will stop working next year. See https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2016/06/api-v1-deprecated/ for details.

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