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createSharedLinkWithSettings: Use external link in iOS app
I am creating a sharing link using client.sharing.createSharedLinkWithSettings(path: "/MyTestPath").response { response, error in if let link = response { let linkU...
Thank you very much. I didn't understand that I needed to run the result through a switch statement as the ShareFolderLaunch returned is a Dropbox-union:
client.share.shareFolder(path:"/MyTestPath").response { shareResult, error in
switch shareResult {
case .complete(let shareData):
// Use metadata here
case .asyncJobId(.....
Now it works perfectly!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffI don't believe we have sample code for these in particular, but you can call those methods much the same way as you would call createSharedLinkWithSettings, and get the information from the response object.
Note that the folder sharing operation may run asynchronously though. If successful, the shareFolder response will be a ShareFolderLaunch which will either be 'complete' and give you a SharedFolderMetadata directly, or 'asyncJobId', in which case you poll checkShareJobStatus to get the SharedFolderMetadata. Either way, once you get the SharedFolderMetadata, you can get the shared folder ID from SharedFolderMetadata.sharedFolderId.
Thank you very much. I didn't understand that I needed to run the result through a switch statement as the ShareFolderLaunch returned is a Dropbox-union:
client.share.shareFolder(path:"/MyTestPath").response { shareResult, error in
switch shareResult {
case .complete(let shareData):
// Use metadata here
case .asyncJobId(.....
Now it works perfectly!
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