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Kevin B.36
9 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
list_folders and list_mountable_folders Returns Old and Deleted folders
Hi, I have 42 folders in my Web Dropbox. 43 if you count the deleted folder. When I use either /list_folders or /list_mountable_folders I get 88 folders returned in the JSON string. The other 46 ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
9 years agoFor the 400 error, make sure you check the response body. It should contain a more useful error indicating the issue.
The path value should be passed in JSON in the body (not in the URL itself) as shown in the example in the documentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
If that's not working for you, share your code and output so we can take a look.
The path value should be passed in JSON in the body (not in the URL itself) as shown in the example in the documentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
If that's not working for you, share your code and output so we can take a look.
Kevin B.36
9 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Greg,
Yes, I finally figured that out with your advice and a working example and am now getting parameters passed and a 200 return code. Thanks for the heads up.
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