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coderkev
Explorer | Level 3
12 months ago

Dropbox Pagination - No way to go to previous page

I am using /list_folders and /list_folders/continue to create a paginated file gallery in my Web application.   I want to make any page in this gallery shareable, for example I want to share page...
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  • DB-Des's avatar
    DB-Des
    12 months ago

    Hi there!

     

    Pagination with the Dropbox API only goes forward. You may want to have your application process all the results first and then use that data as needed in your application.

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DB-Des
Icon for Dropbox Engineer rankDropbox Engineer
12 months ago

Hi there!

 

Pagination with the Dropbox API only goes forward. You may want to have your application process all the results first and then use that data as needed in your application.

  • coderkev's avatar
    coderkev
    Explorer | Level 3
    12 months ago

    Are there any plans in your roadmap to allow it to go backward? Processing all results at once sounds like it could create issues. May have to create a database collection of our own just to track cursors..

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      Greg-DB
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
      12 months ago

      No, Dropbox does not have plans to update the API to support reversing through paginated API responses.

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