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rabbigarfinkel
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Downloading file with Swiftydropbox
I have successfully installed Swiftydropbox and my app successfully registers with Dropbox. But I don't understand what to do now if I want to download from a Dropbox. My goal is to download a text file into a URL and then open that URL in a tableview.
I think where I'm having trouble understanding the docs is this line:
client.files.download(path: "/test/path/in/Dropbox/account", overwrite: true, destination: destination)
What goes in place of /test/path/in/Dropbox/account? For instance, how would I get the app to download something from my own account?
Thank you,
Eli
That code doesn't list or display any files. It only downloads a file at "/Documents/RamKolText2.txt".
If you want to get a list of files to display to the user, you can use listFolder and listFolderContinue.
- Greg-DBDropbox Staff
That path should be the remote path of the file in the connected Dropbox that you want to download. For example, to get a file named "example.txt" in a folder named "Documents", you would supply "/Documents/example.txt".
If you're getting metadata about files from the API, this would be the "pathLower" property of a FileMetadata object.
- rabbigarfinkelExplorer | Level 4
Thank you. The problem is that I would not know the filepath of a user's selected file. In the code below, what line is supposed to trigger the display of the user's files so that the user can tap on a file and return that path to my app?
// Download to URL let fileManager = FileManager.default let directoryURL = fileManager.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)[0] let destURL = directoryURL.appendingPathComponent("/Documents/RamKolText2.txt") let destination: (URL, HTTPURLResponse) -> URL = { temporaryURL, response in return destURL } client.files.download(path: "/Documents/RamKolText2.txt", overwrite: true, destination: destination) .response { response, error in if let response = response { print(response) } else if let error = error { print(error) } } .progress { progressData in print(progressData) }
Thanks!
- Greg-DBDropbox Staff
That code doesn't list or display any files. It only downloads a file at "/Documents/RamKolText2.txt".
If you want to get a list of files to display to the user, you can use listFolder and listFolderContinue.
- RichSuper User IIMoved to the API forum.
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