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list_folder does not return recursive folder listing
API document says: recursive Boolean If true, the list folder operation will be applied recursively to all subfolders and the response will contain contents of all subfolders. The default for this ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorCan you share the code and parameter values you're using? That should offer some better context so I can advise on this.
Feel free to open an API ticket if you'd prefer to share privately. Thanks!
Here's a sample that may help you understand how I am making the request:
def list_folders(namespace_id): url = 'https://api.dropbox.com/2/files/list_folder' headers = {"Dropbox-API-Path-Root": json.dumps({".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": namespace_id}) body = {"path": f"ns:{namespace_id}", "recursive": True, "limit": 2000} response = session.post(url, headers=headers, json=body) listing = response.json() #And I don't get the recursive listing.- Greg-DB
Thanks! That's helpful. There are two things to note here:
- Are you getting "has_more": true in the response? If so, you'll need to call back to /2/files/list_folder/continue as covered in the /2/files/list_folder documentation. The nested entries may be on the subsequent pages that would be returned by /2/files/list_folder/continue.
- You're specifying "namespace_id" in both the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header as well as the "path" value. It may not make a difference for the actual question here, but you only need to include it in one or the other. (If you set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" to the namespace ID, you can just use "" as the path.)
Thanks Greg!
Yes, 'has_more' is True and when I call `list_folder/continue` with the cursor, I still don't get the recursive folder listing. That is only the child folder is returned in response not its contents. It was working last week.
As for "Dropbox-API-Path-Root", the only reason I am using is if I don't use it, then some some folder entries appear without path_display field. I understand that field is optional in case the folder is not mounted, but I am listing the team folders' contents as admin so it mount should not even come in picture coz I am not accessing the folder through user's namespace.
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