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Terrible experience with Paper API
Hell,
I am a long time Dropbox paid user and I`ve decided to convert propietary notes to Dropbox Paper documents on my phone.
Unable to find import function I created simple program to do just t...
Hello Greg, thanks for reply!
> API sometimes throws 500 Internal Server Error but still creates doc
Example ID with 500 Internal Server Error.
"x-dropbox-request-id":["f25fd3b330d2e7c768f53df00be859bf"]
Example code: https://pastebin.com/i3kEYRfU
The amount of documents I upload is ~100 and I sometimes get error in the middle of upload, however documents still created.
> No ID of document
Yes there is an API but Dropbox.paperDocsDownload() return result PaperDocExportResult which does not contain document ID.
Is there any way to fetch all metadata of documents without content download? I don`t need a document, just a title and an ID.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community Moderator- "API sometimes throws 500 Internal Server Error but still creates doc": Thanks! That's helpful. We'll look into it.
- "No ID of document": I see, thanks. For that method, the doc ID is a required input parameter, so I imagine it wasn't expected that the output would necessarily need the doc ID, since the client already knew it. So to clarify, is the issue that this makes it harder to track the result, especially when operating on multiple documents in an asynchronous fashion? Let me know if I have that right or not and I'll pass this along as a request with that context.
- "Is there any way to fetch all metadata of documents without content download?": No unfortunately there isn't a way to request the metadata only, but I'll pass this along as a feature request as well. I can't promise if or when any of these might be implemented though.
Thanks.
As a resolution there is 2 serious issues I would consider to prioritize.
1. Deleted documents visible through API. This is a showstopper as it does not give ability to fix import mistakes.
2. No way to filter documents by a folder when fetching a list of documents. And there is no folder_id in document metadata. Ugh. This makes folders invisible to API (except when creating).
- Greg-DB
Thanks!
For the folder information, there is /2/paper/docs/get_folder_info, but that does require one call per Paper doc, so I can see that being inefficient for some use cases. I've sent this along as a feature request for a better solution.
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