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anandjpr
5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Issue in getting content of PDF/Doc etc
We are consuming dropbox api from our Delphi App.
We are facing issue in getting PDF from dropbox(Upload,delete is working fine).
Getting Blank PDF
Except text file i am facing i...
- 5 years ago
Thanks! That does show the raw PDF data, indicating that the Dropbox API call itself did succeed and return the file data.
That being the case, it looks like the issue here is with writing that data to the local filesystem. As that's not related to the Dropbox API itself, I'm afraid I can't offer much help with that. You'll need to debug that part of your code, such as the "SaveToFile" method. For instance, make sure you have the right local path and that you have the permissions needed to write to that path.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
5 years agoFirst, can you confirm that the "/test/BackcardHTTPS.pdf" file on Dropbox itself is not empty and does contain the expected data?
Then, can you inspect the API response? Check the status code; if it's not 200, then the call failed for some reason. You should also check the response headers for metadata, and response body for the file data, if the call succeeded. If it failed, there should be some error.
By the way, you shouldn't post your access token like that. You should redact it from your image, and then revoke and replace it.
- anandjpr5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
I have checked "BackcardHTTPS.pdf" contain proper data.
And Api response is code is 200.
When I am trying to read text file(*.txt) every thing is working fine.
- Greg-DB5 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
What about the rest of the response? What's in the headers and body?
- anandjpr5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Request Endpoint:
https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download
Request header:
Authorization : Bearer <REDACTED>
Dropbox-API-Arg : {"path":"/test/BankcardHTTPS.pdf"}
Please suggest why i am getting Blank PDF file.
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