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Hi , i know that dropbox made a lot of changes in the last few years. i want to understand something there where a time that i needed to check the account , and check if the account is team in o...
Omri1984 The combination of the two features allows an app to distinguish between all three team configurations. Please refer to this post for information on that. The recommendation is use these feature values to programmatically determine how to handle any particular team, as described throughout that post.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorOmri1984 Yes, there are currently three possible team configurations. The linked resources cover how to detect all of the different feature states so apps can use the features accordingly. Note though that the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header is supported by all three configurations, so you can use that to set the root when calling for any account regardless of the team configuration if you wish to do so. That can make your code a bit simpler.
ok i am working on requesting the get values from the api,
just one more thing how do i know when to call the team.getvalues or user.getvalues
for old and new team should i use the team and for personal user i need to use the user ?
also trying to fetch the get values and getting an error such as
creating client with https://api.dropboxapi.com and a Bearer token
var requestBody = "{\"features\":[{\".tag\":\"\"distinct_member_home\"},{\".tag\":\"team_shared_dropbox\"}]}";
var content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(requestBody), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");var res = await httpClient.PostAsync("/2/users/features/get_values",content);
but always get the same response of:
Result: "Error in call to API function \"users/features/get_values\": request body: expected object, got string"
am i missing something here
Hi Omri1984,
Why are you doing your life difficult and trying to rediscover hot water? 😯😀 That, what you're trying to figure out is already done in the official Dropbox .NET SDK and you can use it ready for use! 🤷 Why you don't you make your life easier? 😉
Omri1984 wrote:...
var requestBody = "{\"features\":[{\".tag\":\"\"distinct_member_home\"},{\".tag\":\"team_shared_dropbox\"}]}";
var content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(requestBody), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
...
Result: "Error in call to API function \"users/features/get_values\": request body: expected object, got string"
am i missing something here
🙂 Maybe "missing" is not the exact word. Do you understand what JSON object means? What do you have in your requestBody variable? 🤔 Is that an object or some string what you later serialize? 🧐
Actually you have done something twice, not missing! 😉 That what the error message signals for.
By the way you are setting you content type twice. The second one:
Omri1984 wrote:...
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");...
... may be skipped since already exists in previous code statement.
Hope this drive you in right direction.
Bu greg wrote before that some of the parameters are not support by the sdk.
i need to support in my code all the options.
in the past we used the root.info.isTeam.
regrading the string of request body , it is a string that i am serializing it to an object
but now the root.info changed. so need to get the account value to determent what type of team / new team or personal the user is authenticate with
edit,
also I tried to remove the
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
but still got the same error
if you can show another way using c# also good 🙂
- Greg-DB
Omri1984 The team features tell you information about the entire team itself, and the user features tell you information about the specific user account (which may be a member of a team, and so there would be some overlap with the team features). Exactly which you use is up to you, depending on what you need to know in your app.
In any case, like Здравко mentioned, I do not recommend trying to re-implement these calls outside of the .NET SDK. If you're using the .NET SDK, I recommend continuing to use it as-is. While it does not have the new feature values implemented natively, you can use the root information returned by GetCurrentAccountAsync (like shown in your original screenshot) to determine the same things. Please refer to my earlier message for an explanation of the conditions to check.
Hi Greg-DB
From the get current account i used to use in the past. It return is team = true when it was a new space team
But now it is changed.
Can please explain again how can i know if it is a bew team old team or user . And if it is a user if i can tell if it auser inside a old team new team or jist user with no team .
Please clear that for me 😁- Greg-DB
Omri1984 Here's a basic example of how you can use the existing root information to determine the same information as the feature values using the .NET SDK:
var accountInfo = await this.client.Users.GetCurrentAccountAsync(); bool team_shared_dropbox = accountInfo.RootInfo.IsTeam; Console.WriteLine("team_shared_dropbox: " + team_shared_dropbox); bool distinct_member_home = accountInfo.RootInfo.RootNamespaceId != accountInfo.RootInfo.HomeNamespaceId; Console.WriteLine("distinct_member_home: " + distinct_member_home);
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