Rename file via web api

[vineet]

Hello team ,

                     I want to rename a file or folder via web API. I am not able to find sepecific api for renaming. please help 

[Здравко]

Hi @vineet,

What are you doing when you rename something? 🤔 Isn't the same like you're moving content from one file/folder to another file/folder (with different name) in a same directory? Take a look on: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-move 😉

[vineet]

Thanks for the reply. No intent to move file or folder. I just want to rename a folder and document name via web api.

[Greg-DB]

@vineet Здравко is correct, to rename a file via the API, you should use /2/files/move_v2. To rename a file, you should include the full path and file name for the old path/name and new path/name in the 'from_path' and 'to_path' parameters, respectively. You don't need to change any parent path components though. For example, you could specify "/Documents/oldname.ext" and "/Documents/newname.ext" to rename a file in the "Documents" folder.

By the way, that's a link to the documentation for the HTTPS endpoints themselves, but we recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible. Those have corresponding native methods for the HTTPS endpoints.