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events followed by api request
hey, when I post download or get_preview request I get the content that I asked for, but I can't get event back. Is there anything to do about it?
I'm looking to get download file event for example as response when I use log\get_events after the request
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorI see, thanks for clarifying. The /1/team/log/get_events endpoint doesn't return events for API calls like this. From the documentation, these events are only reported for the web app:
files download_files Download files from the webapp files preview_files Preview files from the webapp
- thanks for the clarification. What about edit file or restore file?
Any time I edit file I recieve add_file and for restore file I get revert to previous revision. Any idea what to do?- Greg-DBCan you share the specific steps to reproduce these issues, and some sample output showing them? Thanks in advance!
Of course.
First, I realized that for editing a file I need to upload it with certain writeMode. I chose update(I assume that the rev is correct so I won't have any conflict).
Post https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload
Dropbox-API-Select-User: dbmid:AACQ8S3d39L9O3hcbMb9V1emEp31fZAwge8
Connection: close
Authorization: Bearer <redacted>
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Host: content.dropboxapi.com
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/1.8.0_101)
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test1.txt"}Next I will edit it by using upload with this arguments(got last rev by get_metadata):
Dropbox-API-Select-User: dbmid:AACQ8S3d39L9O3hcbMb9V1emEp31fZAwge8
Connection: close
Authorization: Bearer <redacted>
Content-Length: 4
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Host: content.dropboxapi.com
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/1.8.0_101)
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test1.txt", "mode":{".tag":"update", "update":"e2e31fbcd7b"}}This is the 2 events I get in return(I deleted irrelevant fields):
{\"event_type\": \"add_files\", \"info_dict\": {\"actor_app_id\": 706966, \"is_dir\": false, \"file_id\": \"id:iyTVkdn9p0YAAAAAAAAG-Q\", \"host_id\": 3469059452, \"path\": \"/test1.txt\"}, \"event_type_description\": \"Added files\", \"event_category\": \"files\", \"time\": \"2016-10-27T05:01:13+00:00\",},
{\"event_type\": \"add_files\", \"info_dict\": {\"actor_app_id\": 706966, \"is_dir\": false, \"file_id\": \"id:iyTVkdn9p0YAAAAAAAAG-Q\", \"path\": \"/test1.txt\"}, \"event_type_description\": \"Added files\", \"event_category\": \"files\", \"time\": \"2016-10-27T05:05:21+00:00\"}
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