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jasmine_r
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8 years ago
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team member name of a file

Hi, i have a shared folder with 3 users, How do i obtain the name of the user who uploads a file in the shared folder. Does the file inside the  shared folder contains any attribute about the user or...
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    jasmine_r
    8 years ago

    Hi, i have fixed it, i tried it with Metadata instead of FileMetadata and that was the problem. This worked without any errors.

     

    FileMetadata filemetadata = (FileMetadata)client.files().getMetadata(metadata.getPathLower());
FileSharingInfo fileSharingInfo = filemetadata.getSharingInfo();
fileSharingInfo.getModifiedBy();

     

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jasmine_r
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Hi, I m able to get the shared folders and files with listFolderBuilder and listFolderContinue. This is my code

DbxRequestConfig config = new DbxRequestConfig("dropbox/java-tutorial", "en_US");
DbxClientV2 client = new DbxClientV2(config, ACCESS_TOKEN);    	
ListFolderResultresult=client.files().listFolderBuilder("").withIncludeDeleted(true).withRecursive(true).start();
while (true) 
{
	for (Metadata metadata : result.getEntries()) 
	{
		System.out.println(metadata.getPathLower()+"\t"+metadata.getName());		
	}
	if (!result.getHasMore()) {
		break;
	}
	result = client.files().listFolderContinue(result.getCursor());
}

this returns a json data from where i can retrieve id, name, path etc. 

{
	"entries":
	[
		{
			".tag":"file",
			"name":"Sample.java",
			"id":"id:nDRxdFgbLhAAAAAAAAAAJA",
			"client_modified":"2018-06-21T11:15:59Z",
			"server_modified":"2018-06-21T11:16:00Z",
			"rev":"2c9463620",
			"size":1837,
			"path_lower":"/abc/sample.java",
			"path_display":"/abc/Sample.java",
			"parent_shared_folder_id":"3376821792",
			"sharing_info":{"read_only":false,
					"parent_shared_folder_id":"3376821792",
					"modified_by":"dbid:AADz0pcde3etsRJmumakFzDDH-aJzp2vYRo"
					}
		}
	],

	"cursor":"AAHDAg8um0mKlykS0oaq2UAczjkJCm3hPYZa_8HyYwaWAZLZc_5cMJtPPLuHvltxUrdepeLalz5LxncSUPfVq915nU4fEqCIFqncL_Hxvw8cnOVL0dfQ_bTvP5f9Qhbk-Hp7qhIB8pAmZsxli60ZTFwmqLET8zUbGKbSIdSCrJ1wgfyns6NquC-TzeT4wELWDD0",
	"has_more":false
}

 I'm stuck how to get the sharing_info, i tried using

FileSharingInfo data = metadata.getSharingInfo();
data.getModifiedBy();

But it doesn't work. What am i missing here ?

jasmine_r's avatar
jasmine_r
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Hi, i have fixed it, i tried it with Metadata instead of FileMetadata and that was the problem. This worked without any errors.

 

FileMetadata filemetadata = (FileMetadata)client.files().getMetadata(metadata.getPathLower());
FileSharingInfo fileSharingInfo = filemetadata.getSharingInfo();
fileSharingInfo.getModifiedBy();

 

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