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searchContinueV2 seems to not work on the last batch it should find
I am using the Java2 SDK to perform a search for directories matching a pattern, then deleting them. The directories are named as:
ROOT_DIR_CONSTANT/p_<YYYYMMDD>/p_<ID 1>_<SUB ID 1>
For e...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe Dropbox API search functionality is not always guaranteed to completely/immediately return results, especially when changes are actively being made, due to indexing and caching.
That being the case, for a scenario like this, I recommend using listFolder/listFolderBuilder and listFolderContinue instead as that functionality is not subject to the same limitations.
Greg -
Is there a way with listFolders to have it match on a partial directory name? That is why I was using search. Because while I know the root dir name, and I can specifically check the name of the directory associated with a date, AND I know the first ID, I do not know in advance what the last portion of the directory name might be. i.e. given this directory path:
/TestingRootDir/p_20211018/p_44c92de4-ddd6-42dc-823a-9dkkf35j5sds_test001
I can derive this much ahead of time: /TestingRootDir/p_20211018/p_44c92de4-ddd6-42dc-823a-9dkkf35j5sdsBut the last '_test001' may be any number of a combination of characters. So what I was trying to do is get the list of directories associated with the first portion of the directory name only.
Can listFolder do that?
Thanks!
- Greg-DB
No, the listFolder functionality doesn't support partial matching like that. You would need to list the nearest parent folder and then apply whatever filtering you want on the results client-side.
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