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Alex_Shekunsky
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Get user's account info

Hi! I need help. How i can get linked user's dropbox account info (name/email) in Objective-c by API v2 ? In v1 i did this by  [self.restClient loadAccountInfo]; in method: - (void)restClient:(...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

If you're using the API v2 Objective-C SDK, the equivalent method is getCurrentAccount:

 

https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-obj-c/api-docs/latest/Classes/DBUSERSRoutes.html#/c:objc(cs)DBUSERSRoutes(im)getCurrentAccount

 

Here's an example of how you would make an "RPC-style" request like that (for creating a folder in this case):

 

https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-obj-c#rpc-style-request

 

Xcode should auto-complete most of the boilerplate code for you though.

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    Alex_Shekunsky
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Thank you very much!

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