Move API leads to temp permission removed for team subfolders/subfiles (eg. 5 to 30s observed)

[ethanfang]

Hi,

We've developed an syncing app, and we found that if we use move api (eg. https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/move_v2) with Dropbox-API-Path-Root as root teamspace id to rename team folder under team space root.

The subfolders and subfiles of the renamed team folder will then lose their permissions (eg. the members can't access those subfolders or subfiles at the temporary period) for around 5 to 30 seconds.
Moreover, the response message is no_write_permission, which is the same as the response for those without permissions who want to access files will receive.
{

    "error_summary": "path/no_write_permission/..",

    "error": {

        ".tag": "path",

        "path": {

            ".tag": "no_write_permission"

        }

    }

}

We can't distinguish if it's a temporary permission lose or it is just simply no permissions by api response. And we don't want to send another api to poll for 5 to 30 seconds every time we met an no permission issue.
Could you please help to resolve the temporary permission lost issue, or provide us a way to distinguish the "tempororary" permission lost from "no" permission cases with the api response?

Thank you~!
Best regards,

Ethan Fang

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

Thanks for sharing this. As you found, the Dropbox back-end needs to perform some additional work immediately after an operation like this. There isn't a way to check on or disambiguate this programmatically unfortunately, so please add a sufficient delay/retry. I know this is non-ideal and can be slow, so I'll send this along as feedback to the team to see if we can improve or eliminate this in the future. Apologies for the bother.