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Finding if Metadata is for file or folder

Finding if Metadata is for file or folder

Eric J.12
Explorer | Level 4

Hi,

I am migrating to API v2 and I am using the Java SDK 2.1.1

In v1, there was a way to check if a metadata represented a file or folder. I can't find a method in v2 to get this information. Do you think this could be added? Thank you.

 

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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

Hi Eric, you can use instanceof to determine if a given Metadata is an instance of FileMetadata, FolderMetadata, or DeletedMetadata and then cast it accordingly, e.g., as shown here:

https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/blob/3cfa878e5d73f06ed4782c8833b229838fd21472/examples/a...

Eric J.12
Explorer | Level 4

Thanks for the quick response!

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