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Raheel S.'s avatar
Raheel S.
Explorer | Level 3
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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Raheel S.'s avatar
Raheel S.
Explorer | Level 3
11 years ago

Hey Greg, good to see you here.

By "push", I mean, observing changes to anything in a datastore was so easy. Just add an observer and figure out according to the DBDatastoreStatus thing.. 

I know Sync API had those for a full folder.. 

My intention is to keep my local copy (in my preferred data structure) and make use of these notifications to add or delete data to my local store, using simple text files as a replacement of DBRecord. I don't intend to keep dropbox text files open locally. 

Syncing was easy here as I didn't have to figure out "what changes were made", I jus received those DBRecord and I made the necessary changes. 

If i'm correct, in APIv2 I'd have to manually look out for what kinda changes where made and get a list of those files.

Looks like a long road to transition, but can you think of  a better way to use APIv2? Lets just say, I want to stick with dropbox :) 

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