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ramonpoca's avatar
ramonpoca
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

listFolder with includeMediaInfo not listing all available files

We have a problem while integrating the v2 iOS API on our photography App.   If we call listFolder for the root folder with includeMediaInfo set to yes, fewer results are returned (e.g. recently ba...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

If you're using /files/get_metadata with include_media_info=true, you should get 'pending' media information. I just tried it, and it is working for me. Can you share the HTTP request and response for an API call like that that isn't working for you? Thanks in advance! 

 

Also, the API is designed to show pending media info from /files/get_metadata but not /files/list_folder. The former can be accessed on demand, but the latter is only supposed to return one entry per file, so they are deferred until all of the requested (media) information is available. I'll send this along as a feedback though, to see if we can do this in a different way in the future.

 

In any case, the delayed files/folders appear to be due to an issue on our side. We're looking into it, and will follow up here one we have an update.

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cdemiris99
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Thanks for responding.

 

We are using /files/list_folder, so that explains why I'm not seeing them.  It hasn't been a real issue in the past as long as files were being processed in a reasonable amount of time (and hopefully once this is fixed it we'll be ok for now).  

 

However, it seems inefficient if I now have to do list_folder without the metadata then have to query individually for each file to get metadata (or merge two separate list_folder calls like another user mentioned), so I really do hope it can be changed in the future to have list_folder simply provide the same list regardless of the include_media_info flag, and simply provide media info if available.

 

 

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