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Andre_LB
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8 years ago

v2 API

Hi Dropbox Team, I am trying, using Dropbox API, to access my files in Dropbox. I have already done it with Dropbox API v1 and now I would like to do it with v2. For this reason, I performed as fo...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

If you know the path to the file, you can get the file metadata using `files().getMetadata()`:

https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/files/DbxUserFilesRequests.html#getMetadata-java.lang.String-


By the way, if you just want to download the latest version of the file, you don't need to supply the 'rev' too. There's a version of the `files().download()` method that requires just the 'path' and not the 'rev':

 

https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/files/DbxUserFilesRequests.html#download-java.lang.String-

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Andre_LB
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Hi Greg,

yes, I have just tied and it works.

 

@ Greg, Chuck: thank you very much for your help.

     Now I may do, with API v2, what I need.

 

Kind Regards,

Andrea

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