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josuegomes
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Resume upload: what is the current offset?

Hi,   I understand I can use upload sessions to upload large files. That is: call Upload Session Start, then Upload Session Append and finally Upload Session Finish. My question: is it possible...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago
josuegomes wrote:

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Possible solutions are: persist the current offset together with the serssion id.

Or call Append with an invalid offset (eg 0), it returns the `UploadSessionOffsetError` error with the correct offset.

 

Is it ok to rely on the UploadSessionOffsetError?

Hi josuegomes,

Yes, that's are the possible ways. Is it Ok or Not - it's your design decision; it would work. I personally prefer the first option (to save current state - both id and offset or set of offsets/pattern when concurrent upload is in use).

Good luck.

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

josuegomes Yes, as Здравко said, either way would work. In general though the expectation is that the app would record the current offset locally.

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