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Artem K.'s avatar
Artem K.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

International characters in filenames

Hi, I am migrating to V2 of REST API and I am having problems with endpoints that require passing arguments using "Dropbox-API-Arg" header (for example, https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/downl...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

This may depend on your setup, but are you sure you need the double '/'? Have you tried it without it? i.e.,

 

"Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/blackdog/\u4e2d\u6587prd.docx"}"

 

In any case, we recommend either using the official Dropbox Java SDK, or having a library do the encoding for you. E.g., for Java, using Jackson, it would look like:

 

JsonFactory f = ...
JsonGenerator g = f.createGenerator(...);
g.setHighestNonEscapedChar(0x7E);
jianwen's avatar
jianwen
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Actually i use Jackson format json as follow:

        String path = "/blackdog/中文PRD.docx";
        path = StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(path);
        path_req.setPath(path);
        String header_json = JsonUtils.writeValue(path_req);
        LoggerUtils.logInfo(this.getClass(), header_json);

In java double / standards /,so following code 

"Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/blackdog/\u4e2d\u6587prd.docx"}"

is correct in Java.

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