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pojler
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Searching for all files with certain extension in Java API and some issues with search queries
Hello!
I'm building a small function in which i want to get metadata from for example all of PDF's and DOC files. So I am using a SearchV2Builder withFileExtension option. But i don't know hot write a query for any string. I tried with regexes, wildcards characters and nothing works.
```
private final String extensions[] = {"pdf","docx","doc","odt","jpg"};
public void findFile(String query){
try{
SearchV2Builder searchBuilder = client.files().searchV2Builder(query);
List<String> fileExtensions = Arrays.asList(extensions);
SearchOptions searchOptions = SearchOptions.newBuilder().withFileExtensions(fileExtensions).build();
SearchV2Result searchResult = searchBuilder.withOptions(searchOptions).start();
List<SearchMatchV2> searchMatches = searchResult.getMatches();
System.out.println(searchMatches.size());
for (SearchMatchV2 s: searchMatches){
System.out.println(s.getMetadata().getMetadataValue().getPathDisplay());
}
}
catch(DbxException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
```
So my question is how to write that query? Maybe there is different solution for that. Thanks in advance!
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66518862/dropbox-sdk-java-write-search-query-to-get-all-files ]
The Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to do a wildcard search like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
While not ideal, as a workaround, you could list the full contents using listFolder/listFolderBuilder/listFolderContinue and filter based on the file extension.
1 Reply
- Greg-DB5 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66518862/dropbox-sdk-java-write-search-query-to-get-all-files ]
The Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to do a wildcard search like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
While not ideal, as a workaround, you could list the full contents using listFolder/listFolderBuilder/listFolderContinue and filter based on the file extension.
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