Problem with the list folder path to retrieve recursive folders

[sophisty]

Im trying out the V2 ApI and I am having some issues to list all the folders and their content.

So i managed to curl via terminal using this : 

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder     
	--header "Authorization: Bearer <acces token>”
     	--header "Content-Type: application/json"  
	--data "{\"path\": \"\"}"

And it succeeds, it returns:

{ "entries" : [ 
{ ".tag" : "folder", "name" : "hotel_1", "path_lower" : "/hotel_1", "path_display" : "/hotel_1", "id" : "id:QmI2D_9l9AAAAAAAAAAACA" }, 
{ ".tag" : "folder", "name" : "hotel_2", "path_lower" : "/hotel_2", "path_display" : "/hotel_2", "id" : "id:QmI2D_9l9AAAAAAAAAAACg" }, 
{ ".tag" : "file", "name" : "text1.txt", "path_lower" : "/text1.txt", "path_display" : "/text1.txt", "id" : "id:QmI2D_9l9AAAAAAAAAAADg", "client_modified" : "2017-12-08T11:24:37Z", "server_modified" : "2017-12-08T11:24:40Z", "rev" : "7707ce270", "size" : 7, "content_hash" : "<content code>" } ],
"cursor" : "<cursor code>", 
"has_more" : false }

This is my folder structure:

So i know i have to adjust the "path" and set "recursive" to true, but whenever i do that, curl does not return anything, not even an error. Or with some tries i got back "could not decode input as json".

so some of the paths i tried are:

--data "{\"path\": \”/hotel_1\”}”
--data "\"path\": \"/sop_nifi"}"

--data "\"path\": \"/sop_nifi"\"/recursive:true\"}"

and other variations i cant remember. I read the documentation but just do not seem to grasp the systax for the path variable. Can someone help me out list all the files and folders?

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

The "data" you pass up needs to be valid JSON, otherwise the API call will fail with the "could not decode input as JSON" error.

Some of your values are missing pieces such as the opening { or a ,. Also, make sure you use the standard " character, and escape it with a \.

So, here are some valid examples based on what you posted:

--data "{\"path\": \"/hotel_1\"}"
--data "{\"path\": \"/sop_nifi\"}"
--data "{\"path\": \"/sop_nifi\", \"recursive:true\"}"

The API Explorer can be helpful for constructing these curl commands: (click "Show Code")

https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#files_list_folder