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Raheel S.'s avatar
Raheel S.
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11 years ago

Transition from Dropbox Datastore API to API v2

Okay, The dates coming close when the datastore api will get deprecated.  I need to think of a good way to transition my iOS app that essentially uses Dropbox Datastores as a way to store "text" no...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

Hi Raheel, for the fist part of your post, it sounds like you're looking for some feedback from other developers in a similar situation, so hopefully any such developers reading can chime in. 

Regarding the "push" feature of the old Datastore API, do you mean how you would sync changes when/as desired? If you're using files with API v2 as described as a replacement, the equivalent there would just be a matter of uploading the new version(s) of the relevant file(s) when necessary.

Alternatively, if you're referring to a way to get low-latency notification of changes, that is available in API v2, using either:

- for client-side apps: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#documentation-files-list_folder-longpoll

- for server-side apps: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/webhooks

Finally, we don't currently have an official SDK for Objective-C for API v2 yet, but I'll send this along as a request.

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