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afritz a.'s avatar
afritz a.
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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Android, uploadBuilder, IllegalArgumentException: Value is null

I have an App named "Android Outliner" with DropBox Api2 integration. One of my customers has an issue while trying to upload a file.   fileMetadata = dbxClientV2 .files()        .u...
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  • afritz a.'s avatar
    afritz a.
    8 years ago

    You were completely right, Greg. The user's setting told me that the called code was this one instead of the one I told you in the first post:

     

    fileMetadata = dbxClientV2
      .files()
      .uploadBuilder("/" + dropboxDir + "/" + file.getName())
      .withAutorename(true)
      .withMode(WriteMode.update(oldRevision))
      .withMute(false)
      .uploadAndFinish(fileInputStream);

     

    I did not cleanup everything correctly after the user changed his sync method from another provider to DropBox and did send a wrong oldRevision.

     

    Thanks for the quick feedback and the accurate suggestion.

     

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

afritz a. Is that definitely the exact code that is triggering this error? The code shows you using the "overwrite" write mode, but the error mentions the "update" write mode instead. 

 

Also, for reference, the "/Apps" folder name is localized based on the user's account language, but this doesn't affect the API behavior, as app's with the app folder permission don't need to know that app folder root path. The API automatically converts the root path for these apps to be the app folder on the backend.

 

 

  • afritz a.'s avatar
    afritz a.
    Helpful | Level 5
    8 years ago
    Greg-DB wrote:

    afritz a. Is that definitely the exact code that is triggering this error? The code shows you using the "overwrite" write mode, but the error mentions the "update" write mode instead. 

     

     

    Thanks for the reply.

    I will check this but have to ask the customer about a Setting. I will tell you.

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      8 years ago

      Thanks. For example, I was able to reproduce this using:

       

      .withMode(WriteMode.update(null))

      The value passed in to WriteMode.update should be the 'rev' value, not null.

      • afritz a.'s avatar
        afritz a.
        Helpful | Level 5
        8 years ago

        You were completely right, Greg. The user's setting told me that the called code was this one instead of the one I told you in the first post:

         

        fileMetadata = dbxClientV2
      .files()
      .uploadBuilder("/" + dropboxDir + "/" + file.getName())
      .withAutorename(true)
      .withMode(WriteMode.update(oldRevision))
      .withMute(false)
      .uploadAndFinish(fileInputStream);

         

        I did not cleanup everything correctly after the user changed his sync method from another provider to DropBox and did send a wrong oldRevision.

         

        Thanks for the quick feedback and the accurate suggestion.

         

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