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808phone
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

How to upload to root with sample code

For the "advanced upload case for "batch" uploading a large number of files" how do you specify root?

For this line:

DBFILESCommitInfo *commitInfo = [[DBFILESCommitInfo alloc] initWithPath:@"/output/path/in/Dropbox"];

initWithPath - I have tried @"/", @"" and other combinations. They all fail with malformed path or other errors.

 

If I specify: @"/" I get this error after the upload is done:

(lldb) po resultEntry.failure

{

    ".tag" = path;

    path =     {

        ".tag" = "malformed_path";

    };

}

 

Thanks

 

6 Replies

  • 808phone's avatar
    808phone
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    I have found out that it is a full path - including filename. 

    I wish I didn't have to guess at all of this!!!!!

    Is it too much to ask for full example code of uploading chunked files?

  • Stephen C.14's avatar
    Stephen C.14
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    8 years ago

    Sorry for the confusion here. I updated the README to make it clearer that the ouput path is the full path, including file name.

     

    Let us know if you have any other questions or feedback for the SDK.

  • 808phone's avatar
    808phone
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Thank you Stephen. Another thing is why does it wait until the end to decide that the path is not valid?

    I was testing a 300MB file which took a long time. I mean it was over an hour I think. At the very end, it decided that the file path was "malformed". 

    Thanks!

  • Stephen C.14's avatar
    Stephen C.14
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    8 years ago

    Yeah it's not ideal, but this is the sort of the price of "batching" everything at once.

     

    Because we don't make so many trips to where our metadata lives during upload, you can upload a lot of stuff at once without running into rate-limiting. But because you do these metadata write operations all at once as the final step, you don't know if ythere's something wrong like a malformed path until everything is already uploaded.

  • 808phone's avatar
    808phone
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Stephen,

     

    Is the upload much slower than before? I don't remember it taking so long to upload large files....

  • Stephen C.14's avatar
    Stephen C.14
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    8 years ago

    I checked our performance graphs, and it doesn't appear that any of our upload endpoints have higher latency than normal.

     

    Of course, double check your connection and make sure it's robust.

     

    If this issue persists for more than a few hours and if you notice it consistently, re-ping this thread, and I can take a closer look.

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