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JSON returning NULL from Uploaded file
I hope you can help. I am trying to get a URL from DropBox using cURL. I am able to upload the file with cURL and retrieve the uploaded file. I have taken the uploaded ID and passed it into the Heade...
Hi Greg,
I get the following error string(103) "Error in call to API function "sharing/get_file_metadata": request body: could not decode input as JSON"
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for sharing that. That is the error message from the Dropbox API. (Since it's an error about the malformed request, it is just text and not JSON, and so json_decode can't read it. You can check the response's 'Content-Type' to check this programmatically.)
Anyway, the error message is indicating that the call failed because you did not send valid JSON containing the API call parameters in the request body. The /2/sharing/get_file_metadata endpoint is an "RPC" style endpoint, meaning that it expects the parameters as JSON in the request body. (This is different than /2/files/upload, which, as a "content-upload" style endpoint, takes its parameters as JSON in a 'Dropbox-API-Arg' request header.)
Looking at your code, I do see that you're attempting to send the /2/sharing/get_file_metadata parameters ('file' and 'actions') in a header, which is incorrect. You'll need to update your code for that call to send them in the request body instead.
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