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Aaron M.10
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Progress Listener for Downloads?
Hello,
Just wondering if anyone knows whether the Dropbox API Core (Java) supports some sort of ProgressListener capability OR will I need to write one myself?
I have a website that uses the old "dropbox-java-sdk v1.3" (org.syncloud) and this came with a class com.dropbox.client2.ProgressListener that could be used to update the UI for download progress such that the progress of larger downloads could be presented to the user i.e. % completed of total bytes read. My users now expect this so updating to below version I have regressed functionality (or so it seems).
<dependency>
<groupId>com.dropbox.core</groupId>
<artifactId>dropbox-core-sdk</artifactId>
<version>[1.7,1.8)</version>
</dependency>
Anyone come across this problem or know of a solution?
Thanks in advance.
6 Replies
- Rich10 years ago
Super User II
Moved to the API forum.
- Greg-DB10 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Unfortunately, the current version of the Java Core SDK doesn't offer a progress listener, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.
- Aaron M.1010 years agoNew member | Level 1
Thanks Gregory.
- 1. 119 years agoNew member | Level 2
How to Obtain the java core sdk upload / download progress ?
- Greg-DB9 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
The Java SDK still doesn't offer upload/download progress listeners, but I'll add your vote to the feature request.
- Greg-DB7 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
The Dropbox API v2 Java SDK now offers progress listeners for uploads and downloads. This has been released in v3.0.9:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/releases/tag/v3.0.9
There's an example of using it with with the uploadAndFinish method ( https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/DbxUploader.html#uploadAndFinish-java.io.InputStream-long-com.dropbox.core.util.IOUtil.ProgressListener- ) for an upload here:
It works the same way with file downloads; the download method ( https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/DbxDownloader.html#download-java.io.OutputStream-com.dropbox.core.util.IOUtil.ProgressListener- ) optionally takes a ProgressListener parameter the same way.
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