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Trying to make a small app that will read a pair of files from a dropbox folder and compile a small database from them. Just getting started, following the sample but I keep getting errors of differe...
- It looks like the ValueError issue is fixed in requests v2.17.1, so please update to that and let me know if you're still seeing any issues.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThat's correct, if your app has the "app folder" permission, everything your app does or "sees" is relative to the app folder itself. You would use "" to refer to the app folder itself, since it's your app's root, or "/subfolder", etc. to refer to something inside your app folder.
From your first paragraph, it sounds like "testFolder" is your app folder itself, so to list its contents you would use a path parameter of "". In your second paragraph, it sounds like you may be trying to specify "testFolder", which wouldn't be necessary. If you're still not seeing the expected results, please share the code and output.
Also, note that the full Dropbox version wouldn't be looking at the same files if you pass the same path string. I.e., using the path "/testFolder" would list the following folders, as seen on the Dropbox web site, for the respective permissions:
- full Dropbox: /testFolder
- app folder: /Apps/<app folder name>/testFolder
From your first paragraph, it sounds like "testFolder" is your app folder itself, so to list its contents you would use a path parameter of "". In your second paragraph, it sounds like you may be trying to specify "testFolder", which wouldn't be necessary. If you're still not seeing the expected results, please share the code and output.
Also, note that the full Dropbox version wouldn't be looking at the same files if you pass the same path string. I.e., using the path "/testFolder" would list the following folders, as seen on the Dropbox web site, for the respective permissions:
- full Dropbox: /testFolder
- app folder: /Apps/<app folder name>/testFolder
Sorry I wasn't clear. Let me try again.
I have a folder called 'testFolder' and two apps. The folder itself has 1 PDF file.
For the app with access to a single folder, (set to 'testFolder' in the app settings), the following produces an empty list of entries:
for entry in dbx.files_list_folder('').entries:
print(entry.name)Now, for the app with full access, the following produces a list with the one entry for the PDF file:
for entry in dbx.files_list_folder('/Apps/testFolder').entries:
print(entry.name)These two operations are supposed to be accessing the same folder, are they not?
Thank you for your help so far
- Greg-DBThanks for clarifying. Yes, those two should give you the same listing.
Make sure both apps are linked to the same account though. You can use users_get_current_account to check that.
If you're still getting unexpected results, feel free to open a ticket with the specific code and output from the affected account and we'll be happy to look into it specifically for you:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contactWell, this is curious. I have firgured it out, but I'm not sure if this is a glitch or not.
So, the original name of the folder for the app was the name of the App (something like App-Test-Name), but, like I said, I changed it in the settings to 'testFolder'.
I then created a folder with that name within the Apps folder. Right beside the original App-Test-Name folder.
I tested now (by adding a different file to App-Test-Name), and the single-folder app is actually listing the contents of the 'App-Test-Name' folder instead of 'testFolder'.Something seems off here...
- Greg-DBManually creating a folder won't connect it to your app. The app folder is a special app folder automatically created for the app when the app is linked to the user's account.
Also, if you change the app folder name setting for an app, it won't change the name of any app folders already created in already linked user accounts.
So, it sounds like this is working as expected, since the existing app folder was "App-Test-Name", and "testFolder" was just the normal folder you created after the fact.
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