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I have an app that used to run fine on the v1 API using xmlhttp requests. Migrating the app to v2 I can't get anything except authorization to work. The app has read/write access to its own folder only.
For example: I want to get a list of the files/folders in a folder named "Recipes" in my app folder:
I create an xmlhttp request (Browser based javascript) with
method: "POST",
url: "https://api.dropbox.com/2/files/get_metadata",
Request header: "Content-Type: "application/json",
and the posted data body is a javascript string:
{"path":"/Recipes"}
I always get a 409 error with "/path/not found" even though I can see the folder clearly in my Dropbox app.
If I try to get the file/folder list of my app's folder I get a 400 error with the message "the root folder is not supported."
You mentioned your app has an app folder, so can you double check that the app folder itself contains a "Recipes" folder in it? I.e., when you look at dropbox.com, that would be at /Apps/<app folder name/Recipes. Also, if you've registered multiple apps or used multiple accounts, make sure you're using an access token for the right app and account.
In any case, to list the contents of a folder, including root (which is the app folder for apps with the app folder permission) you should use the /2/files/list_folder and /2/files/list_folder/continue methods.
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
You mentioned your app has an app folder, so can you double check that the app folder itself contains a "Recipes" folder in it? I.e., when you look at dropbox.com, that would be at /Apps/<app folder name/Recipes. Also, if you've registered multiple apps or used multiple accounts, make sure you're using an access token for the right app and account.
In any case, to list the contents of a folder, including root (which is the app folder for apps with the app folder permission) you should use the /2/files/list_folder and /2/files/list_folder/continue methods.
- Thanks Greg K.
Yes, I am using the correct access token and the /Apps/<app folder> has a folder named Recipes in it. I will try to use the list_folder interface. But I still don't understand why the "get_metadata" does not work. It was fine under the v1 interface. - Greg-DB
Thanks! I can't seem to reproduce that issue though. This works correctly for me:
$.ajax({ url: 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata', type: 'POST', processData: false, data: JSON.stringify({"path": "/Recipes"}), contentType: 'application/json', headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer <APP FOLDER ACCESS TOKEN>" }, success: function(data) { console.log(data); }, error: function(data) { console.error(data); } Object {.tag: "folder", name: "Recipes", path_lower: "/recipes", path_display: "/Recipes", id: "id:JmcDh3CS6tAAAAAAAAABCg"}Please feel free to open an API ticket showing the account and app folder with the Recipes folder, and the API call request/response with the unexpected result and we'll be happy to look into it specifically for you.
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