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Large Data Upload
Now have large data upload working, only 1 thing I cant do is share the folder. Errors on bold text, how do I get the parent shared folder ID after upload. Private Async Function ChunkUpload(path ...
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorWhat do you mean when you say it "seems to be this line that returns the NULL"? The UploadSessionFinishAsync method either returns Task<FileMetadata>, or raises an exception. Please add extra logging or use a debugger to confirm what is actually being returned or raised.
Anyway, UploadSessionFinishAsync is the correct way to commit and then receive the metadata for a large file upload.
Please note that SharingInfo is not guaranteed to be set. It is only set if the file is in a shared folder. You should check metadata.SharingInfo before trying to use metadata.SharingInfo.ParentSharedFolderId. More logging or a debugger would likely be helpful here as well.
Different files can be located in different folders, so it's possible one happens to be in a shared folder, and one isn't.
If you uploaded the file to a folder that is not yet shared, you can share ithe folder using ShareFolderAsync first.
Have also tried that which works, just cant get parentshartedfolderID from this task.
Dim updated As Task(Of ShareFolderLaunch)
updated = dbx.Sharing.ShareFolderAsync(filePath, Nothing, True)Once the folder is shared, I just want to add folder members.
- Greg-DB
In this latest snippet of code, I see you're using ShareFolderAsync. Since that call is to share a folder itself, it doesn't have ParentSharedFolderId like files in shared folders do.
ShareFolderAsync returns Task<ShareFolderLaunch>. You should use CheckShareJobStatusAsync to check the status after calling ShareFolderAsync. CheckShareJobStatusAsync returns Task<ShareFolderJobStatus>. If ShareFolderJobStatus.IsComplete, you can use ShareFolderJobStatus.AsComplete to get the SharedFolderMetadata.SharedFolderId.
OK, getting a bit further now, what if I already have a shared folder that exists, I get the exception "bad_path/already_shared", can I check if a folder share already exists?
- Greg-DB
Making the call and catching that exception is fine, but if you want to check beforehand, you can call FilesUserRoutes.GetMetadataAsync for the folder itself and check the returned FolderMetadata.SharingInfo. (Or, you can list all of the shared folders on the account using SharingUserRoutes.ListFoldersAsync/SharingUserRoutes.ListFoldersContinueAsync.)
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