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Hello together.
I am planning to use the dropbox business api to create some shared files for a development team, which I am planning to establish.
I am already playing with the SDK, which You delivered for the desktop app in C#.
Prior to switch to the business version of the dropbox-api/account, I am currently checking the features of that API.. and would like to ask some questions.
1) Does the UploadAsynch method still not offer an asynchroneous Return Value
representing the amount of uploaded bytes ( maybe even in percent ) ?
Some time ago I read, You may add this to a future release to enable an easy a
progress bar. Any news about that ?
2) If I issue UploadAsynch to Upload files in parallel to N db accounts, is it really totally
ascnhroneous implemented, meaning, will my bandwith be the only bottleneck?
3) Does the API offer inviting users via Mail and One-Usage-URL to have read
access to a file, even if they do not have an dropbox account ?
4) Do all SDK's have 100 % the same features
THX a lot.
1) No, unfortunately the .NET SDK still doesn't offer a way to track upload progress like this.
2) As long as you're not uploading to the same team/shared folder across the accounts, uploads to different accounts won't affect each other.
3) The Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to send emails from Dropbox for shared links, or make shared links good for one download only, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
4) The official Dropbox API v2 SDKs are all built from the same Dropbox API spec so they all offer the same API functionality. The SDKs have to be re-built whenever something is added to the spec though to get the new features, so they may sometimes lag behind the spec. Additionally, some SDKs have extra features specific to their local interfaces. E.g., while all of the SDKs enable access to uploading via the API, some of the SDKs do offer progress listeners.
1) No, unfortunately the .NET SDK still doesn't offer a way to track upload progress like this.
2) As long as you're not uploading to the same team/shared folder across the accounts, uploads to different accounts won't affect each other.
3) The Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to send emails from Dropbox for shared links, or make shared links good for one download only, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
4) The official Dropbox API v2 SDKs are all built from the same Dropbox API spec so they all offer the same API functionality. The SDKs have to be re-built whenever something is added to the spec though to get the new features, so they may sometimes lag behind the spec. Additionally, some SDKs have extra features specific to their local interfaces. E.g., while all of the SDKs enable access to uploading via the API, some of the SDKs do offer progress listeners.
THX a lot fopr this quick reply. ONce I posted the question on the right forum, it got it's answer immediately. (Forgive me, that I forst postet my question on the forum "For business" ).
Ok, regarding step
1) I will have to wrap this upload functionality, upload chunkwise and calculate the amount myself ? I saw this salready somewhere on the web.. maybve I give it a try...
2) Yes, they are totally different DROPBOXES, with their individual credentials and so on...
3) You mean, what I manually do in my dropbox ( meaning click on "share folder" and then enter some email adresses to invite people to my freshly shared folder ) is not possible via DROPBOX-API ?
1) Yes, that would be the best workaround. You need to use upload sessions (where you upload the file in chunks) for large files anyway, so you can keep track of progress by how many chunks have been uploaded so far.
3) To clarify, there are two different main types of sharing on Dropbox:
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