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Can someone please provide me a real example to show how listfoldercontinue: method works with listfolder: in objective-c or in swift? I have read 100 times the description of listfoldercontinue: method but can't understand in the right way. my folder always remains empty.
Previously I was using servermodified to know when the contents of a folder metdata changed.
To Dropbox team: Is it possible to get clientmodified and servermodified properties for DBFILESFolderMeta as well too just like we have clientModified and serverModified properties are available only for DBFILESFileMetadata?
Thank You
Ponky
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To Dropbox Team,
Thank You for providing real example of listfolderContinue: method. Also now no need of timestamp property (like servermodified) for non-file type.
Thank You again,
Here is some example Swift code based on the Objective C code. This works for me to get all of the folders and directories including shared folders and directories.
func listFolderContinueWithClient(client: DropboxClient, cursor: String) { client.files.listFolderContinue(cursor: cursor).response { response, error in if let result = response { print("entries in continue:") for entry in result.entries { //if entry.name.hasSuffix(".fm") { if let folder = entry as? Files.FolderMetadata { print("directory") print(entry.pathDisplay!) self.dropBoxDirectoryArray.append(URL(fileURLWithPath: entry.pathLower!)) }else{ //print(entry.name) print(entry.pathDisplay!) self.dropBoxFileArray.append(URL(fileURLWithPath: entry.pathLower!)) } } if result.hasMore == true { self.listFolderContinueWithClient(client: client, cursor: cursor) }else{ print("no more entries") } } else { print("Error: \(error!)") } } } // FIXME: - root controler button click @objc func onClickBarButton(sender: UIBarButtonItem) { if sender.tag == 40 { // get from dropBox print("This is Directory Array") dump(self.dropBoxDirectoryArray) print("This is File array") dump(self.dropBoxFileArray) if let client = DropboxClientsManager.authorizedClient { client.files.listFolder(path: "", recursive: true).response { response, error in if let result = response { print("Folder contents:") for entry in result.entries { //if entry.name.hasSuffix(".fm") { if let folder = entry as? Files.FolderMetadata { print("directory") print(entry.pathLower!) // check for unmounted folders with a null pathLower self.dropBoxDirectoryArray.append(URL(fileURLWithPath: entry.pathLower!)) }else{ //print(entry.name) print(entry.pathDisplay!) self.dropBoxFileArray.append(URL(fileURLWithPath: entry.pathLower!)) } } if result.hasMore == true { self.listFolderContinueWithClient(client: client, cursor: result.cursor) }else{ } } else { print("Error: \(error!)") } } }else{ var topController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController while let presentedViewController = topController!.presentedViewController { topController = presentedViewController } DropboxClientsManager.authorizeFromController(UIApplication.shared, controller: topController, openURL: { (url: URL) -> Void in UIApplication.shared.open(url, options: [:], completionHandler: nil) }) } }
in recursive call shouldn't it be
self.listFolderContinueWithClient(client: client, cursor: result.cursor)
instead of this
self.listFolderContinueWithClient(client: client, cursor: cursor)
@siddharth chauhan Yes, you're correct. The app should use the latest returned cursor, which would be result.cursor there.
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