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list_folder continue and get latest cursor are returning deleted items when false.
Trying to figure out why I am getting deleted items returned when my original get_latest_cursor input is:
{
"include_deleted": false,
"include_has_explicit_shared_members": false,
"include_media_info": false,
"include_mounted_folders": true,
"include_non_downloadable_files": true,
"path": "/path",
"recursive": true,
"limit": 100
}
Output is:
"entries": [
{
".tag": "deleted",
"name": "NEB_SHERMAN_MJ_022.jpg",
"path_lower": "/path/filename_022.jpg",
"path_display": "/path/FILENAME_022.jpg"
}
1 Reply
millticket, Gooood note! 😉😀
Actually "include_deleted" here is meaningless. The meaning is when you list some folder (using /2/files/list_folder) to be possible ignore already deleted items. When you're going to trace particular change (a change that happens in your path), to be deleted particular file, it has not been deleted before that. So to be able trace it there is no way already deleted to be ignored, otherwise you would skip some deletion of real files. This parameter seems to be just a copy, nothing more (a dummy copy - dis-functional and meaningless).
If there was possible to skip such deleted files, that would be a bug. 🙂
PS: By the way, default value of "include_deleted" is false.
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