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alyoka
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9 years ago
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SwiftyDropbox getting image/video thumbnail

I'm trying to get a thumbnail but seem to receive the path to the original image/video. What am I doing wrong?   client.files.getThumbnail(path: file.pathLower).response{ response, error in if le...
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    Greg-DB
    9 years ago

    The files.getThumbnail call is a "download-style request", like files.download. The response.0 will be the original file metadata, so response.0.pathLower is the original file path. To get the data for the thumbnail, you should use response.1, like in the files.download example here:

     

    https://github.com/dropbox/SwiftyDropbox#download-style-request

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The files.getThumbnail call is a "download-style request", like files.download. The response.0 will be the original file metadata, so response.0.pathLower is the original file path. To get the data for the thumbnail, you should use response.1, like in the files.download example here:

 

https://github.com/dropbox/SwiftyDropbox#download-style-request

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alyoka
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9 years ago
Thank you!

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