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scott_halgrim
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5 years ago

/files/search deprecation and how it relates to the JavaScript SDK

Hey there,   With regard to the deprecation of the /files/search endpoint, I'm curious how it relates to the JavaScript SDK. We're using an older verison of that SDK for our integration, and I'm wo...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The /2/files/search endpoint is deprecated and is being retired in favor of the /2/files/search_v2 endpoint (and /2/files/search/continue_v2 for the pagination of results following /2/files/search_v2). Each of these endpoints correspond to one method in each official SDK. In the JavaScript SDK, that's:

Only filesSearch in the SDK calls the deprecated /2/files/search. In order to migrate from the deprecated endpoint to the new ones, you should replace any usage of filesSearch in your app with filesSearchV2 and filesSearchContinueV2.

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shalgrim
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Thanks so much for your help, Greg. I have some follow-ups.

 

We are currently on an old verison of the SDK. 2.5.12 to be exact, so we have some catching up to do.

 

My concern is still about the files/search endpoint that is about to be deprecated. We are seeing calls to that endpoint that are coming from places other than the filesSearch method. I don't know where they're coming from, but I can rule out they're coming from there. I have a hunch that it might be from filesListFolder or filesListFolderContinue.

 

So, is it the case that other functions in the SDK call filesSearch? What version of the SDK do I need to get to so that I can be sure that by eliminating all of our calls to filesSearch that files/search will never be hit?

 

(Context: If I jump all the way to 9.0.0 all of our tests fail. I've managed to so far get up to 5.1.0 and still have a working test suite, but even going from there to 6.x causes everything to fail.)

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