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Using file revs in API 2
In API 1, whenever a file was uploaded, a file rev was provided in the meta-data's .rev property in the "did upload" delegate methods. In API 2, DBFILESFileMetadata has an equivalent .rev property - so far, so good.
But how do I use that file rev when uploading files? In API 1, the -uploadFile:toPathwithParentRevfromUploadId: and -uploadFile:toPath:withParentRev:fromPath: methods allowed you to pass a cached file rev into them so that you could overwrite the file without having to delete it first.
In API 2, none of the -upload methods in DBFILESRoutes seem to allow you to pass in a file rev, so how is this done? Is it something to do with DBFILESWriteMode? (I couldn't see that had any way to pass in a file rev, either, though.)
Thanks!
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Hmm, actually, looking more at DBFILESWriteMode, is the rev what you are supposed to pass into -initWithUpdate:?
So, e.g.:
NSString *rev = ... // rev cached from a previous upload or listFolder: result. DBFILESWriteMode *update = [[DBFILESWriteMode alloc] initWithUpdate:rev]; DBUploadTask *uploadTask = [self.dropboxClient.filesRoutes uploadUrl:dropboxPath mode:update autorename:@NO clientModified:localModDate mute:@NO inputUrl:localFileURL];
Is this correct, or is the rev added a different way?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
That's correct. Thanks. I think there's a minor documentation mistake in the DBFILESWriteMode.h file that is what makes this unclear. For -initWithUpdate:, it says this:
/// @param update Overwrite if the given "rev" matches the existing file's
/// "rev". The autorename strategy is to append the string "conflicted copy" to
/// the file name. For example, "document.txt" might become "document
/// (conflicted copy).txt" or "document (Panda's conflicted copy).txt".This is a duplicate of the paragraph above it which explains the purpose of the method. Presumably this paragraph should instead state that a file rev should be passed in as the update parameter. (Likewise in the documentation page on the site.) Because of this, I was looking elsewhere to find where I needed to input the "given 'rev'".
- Greg-DBI see, thanks for pointing that out!
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