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Uploading chunks of file data to a file in dropbox
Hello, My scenario: In the application I am working I have to upload chunk of file data and append to a file in dropbox. In the application I will not know the source file name. All I get, throu...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorIf you're using Java, we do recommend using the official Dropbox API v2 Java SDK. There's an example of uploading files included, for both uploading small files, as well as uploading larger files using upload sessions.
To clarify though, do you need to append data to an existing uploaded file? Note that you can append to an upload session by calling uploadSessionAppendV2 as many times as you need, but you need to upload the entire file each time you want to update it. That is, each "upload session" is a way to update a single file to a whole new version of that file, but uploading all of the data for that file version.
Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I need to append data to an existing file on Dropbox. Uploading entire file each time is not an option for me because the data to be appended comes in as an input to my method. So all I have is a byte array which needs to be appended to a file on Dropbox.
- Greg-DBThanks for following up. The API doesn't offer the ability to append like that unfortunately. I'll pass this along as a feature request.
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