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RTS S.
9 years agoHelpful | Level 6
API V2 Can't get large file Upload working
Some context for the following: 1) DBAPIMetadata is just my wrapper for Files.Metadata that I can pass to Objective-C 2) The BGHelper at the end (when the call is not on the MainThread) just call t...
RTS S.
9 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Yep, my upload (with an input stream) and Session upload with chunks of NSData worked after settings the WriteMode (In the latter case the upload always worked, it was the finishing the session and saving the filed that failed)
The error messages are terrible and I would have never guessed from the error what the problem was. Even now looking back I would not have been able to interpret the error.
The last problem was mine... upload with an NSData object (I did not show the code) was a memory management problem. I used an NSData object that did not copy the buffer and the buffer was deleted before it was processed.
All is good ... with multiple techniques to upload a file.
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