File permissions in shared folders

[boby1]

Hi,

I'm using Dropbox business team and want to programmatically list permissions on a file or folder.

Using the apis, I'm able to retrieve the list of files and folders + a couple of properties. 

However I'm unable to find a way to list the permissions.

Language : C#

Whic api should I use?

Do you have a working sample?

Thanks.

[Greg-DB]

The user's access to files in a shared folder are determined by their access level in the shared folder itself.

If you're using the official API v2 .NET SDK, to check the user's current access level for a particular shared folder, you can use GetFolderMetadata. Or, you can list all of the shared folders the user currently has access to with ListFolders / ListFoldersContinue. 

(On the HTTP API itself, those are /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata and /2/sharing/list_folders / /2/sharing/list_folders/continue respectively.)

[boby1]

We need to know who has permissions on the file or folder, not what permission a specific user has on a file or folder.

Using your solution, if a company has 1000 users, we would need the check the permissions of the 1000 users one by one against a given file to determine the access list.

[Greg-DB]

To list all of the members of a shared folder, you would use ListFolderMembers and ListFolderMembersContinue. (Those correspond to /2/sharing/list_folder_members and /2/sharing/list_folder_members/continue).

Likewise, for a shared file, not just a file in a shared folder, you would use ListFileMembers and ListFileMembersContinue. There's also a batch version for that: ListFileMembersBatch. (Respectively: /2/sharing/list_file_members, /2/sharing/list_file_members/continue, and /2/sharing/list_file_members/batch.)