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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

Thanks for clarifying! In that case, the longpoll or webhooks functionality I linked to is the right way to mimic this. (In fact, the Sync/Datastores SDK itself did just use longpolling to find out about changes quickly.) API v2 doesn't have the same sort of model that the Sync/Datastores SDK did though, as you mentioned, so your app should use /list_folder and /list_folder/continue to keep track of changes (which should be easier now that there are file IDs).

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