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HTTP Dropbox download response
I am using HTTP Dropbox API for Uploading and Downloading the files,
I was created the C# API for the Dropbox file upload and download and Calling from AngularJS,
I was receiving the some sting value as Dropbox download response, String as mentioned below.
Guide me to convert this string as Actual file in AngularJS.
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51821074/http-dropbox-download-api-response-angularjs ]
That value you get back is the file data itself. (E.g., in your StackOverflow post, you can see the "PDF" file header.)
Exactly what you do with that is up to you. I can only provide help with the Dropbox API itself, so I'm afraid I can't offer help with data handling in AngularJS. - In Postman also i was receiving the Same outpu
- Greg-DBThat is the file data there as well, but likewise I can't provide support for Postman.
In JavaScript/AngularJS, you may want to refer to the documentation for interacting with files/data for providing a download. For instance, here's how one of our samples apps for JavaScript using the official Dropbox JavaScript SDK offers the file to the user for download:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js/blob/master/examples/javascript/download/index.html#L52
Or, for Postman, you may want to check for functionality for saving the response data as a file.
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