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Dennis T.6's avatar
Dennis T.6
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

Java V2 SDK - get metadata

Using Java SDK v2, I need to get metadata for a file or all files in a directory. Specifically the client modified timestamp.

I cannot find this anywhere in the V2 docs, specifically the DbxFiles.Metadata class only contains name, pathLower and parentSharedFolderId.

How is this done?

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  • Steve M.'s avatar
    Steve M.
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    10 years ago

    You can downcast to http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v2.0.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/DbxFiles.FileMetadata.html, which has a clientModified field. (Of course this only works if the thing you got metadata for is in fact a file. A folder will return DbxFiles.FolderMetadata instead, and deleted items will return DbxFiles.DeletedMetadata.)

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