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Shared Folder Metadata
The help on this topic is:
- shared_folder_id optional The ID of a specific shared folder.
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include_membership Required if
shared_folder_idis specified. If true, include a list of members and a list of groups for the shared folder. - show_unmounted optional This value, either true or false(default), determines whether the returned list of shared folders will include shared folders that the user has left (but may still rejoin).
My interpretation is that include_membership=True MUST have a shared folder ID. Ideally I'd like to have include_membership WITHOUT a shared folder ID and get a JSON return with all the shared folders and all of the members of the share (basically in one REST request).
The other option, which I'm doing now, is to get the shared folder metadata and for every folder call shared folder metadata again supplying a shared folder id (retrieved from the original get shared folder metadata request) with include_membership =True.
Thanks,
kevin
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
It looks like you're referring to the Core API /shared_folders endpoint. The documentation means that if shared_folder_id is specified, you must also specify include_membership. However, that doesn't mean you can't use include_membership without a shared_folder_id. That means you can call /shared_folders and set include_membership=true without specifying a shared_folder_id, and it will return all of the shared folders along with the membership.
I just tried that and it worked for me. Give that a try and let me know if you run in to any trouble.
Gregory,
Brilliant, works perfectly. Cuts my processing time down (for say user with 20 shared folders) by an order of magnitude, it's that significant.
Cheers,
Kevin
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