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I am trying to get the property groups metadata for a file in my dropbox. The problem is the include_property_groups parameter.
From the API example, I can't see any data with include_property_groups :
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata \ --header "Authorization: Bearer " \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data "{\"path\": \"/Homework/math\",\"include_media_info\": false,\"include_deleted\": false,\"include_has_explicit_shared_members\": false}"
But the data returned from the request has property_groups :
{ ".tag": "folder", "name": "math", "id": "id:a4ayc_80_OEAAAAAAAAAXz", "path_lower": "/homework/math", "path_display": "/Homework/math", "sharing_info": { "read_only": false, "parent_shared_folder_id": "84528192421", "traverse_only": false, "no_access": false }, "property_groups": [ { "template_id": "ptid:1a5n2i6d3OYEAAAAAAAAAYa", "fields": [ { "name": "Security Policy", "value": "Confidential" } ] } ] }
If am using include_property_groups in my API call, the response throws an error : "request body: include_property_groups: missing '.tag' key". I tried anything, for the '.tag' key, but I can't seem to get it work.
Can you help ?
Thank you.
The include_property_groups parameter on /2/files/get_metadata takes a TemplateFilterBase object, so specifying it would look like this:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata \ --header "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data "{\"path\": \"/PATH_TO_FILE_HERE\", \"include_property_groups\": {\".tag\": \"filter_some\", \"filter_some\": [\"PROPERTY_TEMPLATE_ID_HERE\"]}}"
The include_property_groups parameter on /2/files/get_metadata takes a TemplateFilterBase object, so specifying it would look like this:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata \ --header "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data "{\"path\": \"/PATH_TO_FILE_HERE\", \"include_property_groups\": {\".tag\": \"filter_some\", \"filter_some\": [\"PROPERTY_TEMPLATE_ID_HERE\"]}}"
Thank you, that worked !
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