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Adi4
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Want to perform Download Operation
Hi everyone! I want to perform download operation but it is only give information about file I use this : try { outputViews.write(documentUtility.newDocument(client.files().download(filePath)...
Здравко
2 years agoLegendary | Level 20
Hi Adi4,
Keep in mind that download method, you're using, returns DbxDownloader object representing the entire response, not directly the content! This object contains the file metadata as well as stream usable for fetch the actual file's content. As seems, you handle object as data - something that stringify current object state (usually the metadata).
Hope this gives direction.
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