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Vartika A.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Pagination / Lazy loading in fetching metadata of files
I want to implement pagination i.e. want to fetch limited files' metadata at a time and on next click the further files. I am not able to find any suitable method in Core Java API for dropbox regardi...
Steve M.
Dropbox Staff
11 years agoI think that getDelta is roughly what you want: http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v1.8.x/com/dropbox/core/DbxClient.html#getDelta(java.lang.String). Note that this method is recursive.
/files/list_folder in API v2 is probably a bit better, since you can do the non-recursive version as well, but a Java SDK for API v2 hasn't been released yet.
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