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scaron
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Silent failures with files_upload and Python API

I am having trouble figuring out the right way to address this issue I am having with one of my apps. I loop over some files and create some worker threads (just a few threads) to upload files to ...
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scaron
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

OK, after some more digging, I tried passing a small timeout to the Dropbox client constructor. I then used urllib3 TimeoutError exception. And now I catch something I wasn't catching before.

I should mention I am using QThreadPool within my app and it has a default 30 second timeout for unused threads. So I think this is why I am not getting any exception or error. So, it sounds like I need to align my timeouts for threads and Dropbox client timeout. Then I can catch urllib3's TimeoutError to restart if needed. Does this sound like the right way to utilize the Dropbox client API?

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