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蕾雷's avatar
蕾雷
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

How do I cancel the process that is being downloaded?

When I use DbxDownloader <FileMetadata> .download to download, halfway to cancel the download call DbxDownloader <FileMetadata> .close to operate, but I got a NullPointerException exception, Message ...
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蕾雷's avatar
蕾雷
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Thank you!

 

(1) Dropbox core API: 3.0.2

(2) Download the code reference: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/issues/66.

 

  Download interface click back to cancel, call stopDownload function:

 

      DbxDownloader<FileMetadata>  :  downloaer
      public void stopDownload() {
if (downloaer != null) {
try {
downloaer.close();
downloaer = null;
} catch (Exception e){
downloaer = null;
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
} 

 

(3) stopDownload throws an exception:

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Thanks! We'll look into it.

For our reference though, can you also share how you're constructing your client object?

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