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sl4677
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9 years ago

Java example to find recent updates (without having to poll) using webhook notification

Do you have an example in Java that selects recent adds/deletes to a dropbox folder do doesn't require polling?   The examples that I pulled from Github do contain one that uses a loop that continu...
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sl4677
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Hi Greg -- 

TheAPI  documentation you mentioned at https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v2.1.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/files/DbxUserFilesRequests.html#listFolder-java.lang.String-   

suggests using ListFolderArg.getRecursive() to keep a local cache of the Dropbox metadata state (e.g. the latest cursor for a user) to be able to find the latest file changes when a user send a Webhook notification. It appears that ListFolderArg was available in version 2.0, but is no longer documented or used in v2.1 .

 

Using version 2.1, what do you then recommend that I use to store the state locally, to be able to find recent file updates for a user with a Webhook notification?

 

Thanks,

Sam

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out! It looks like the documentation needs to be updated. 

 

You can use the builder to build this call with the desired options, like this:

 

ListFolderResult result = client.files().listFolderBuilder("").withRecursive(true).start();

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