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PIttsburgh Menn
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
How to retrieve Shared Folder and Modifier information in /metadata call
I'm having issues with the shared_folder and modifier fields being returned in /metadata. I can't seem to get the API to return anything for shared_folder, and modifier always comes back as null. ...
PIttsburgh Menn
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
I've edited out any tokens / unique identifiers with dashes. Let me know if you need the hashes or revs and I can open a private ticket.
This is the request from Fiddler:
GET https://api.dropbox.com/1/metadata/auto/Test?include_deleted=False&include_membership=True HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer ---------------
Accept: application/json, application/xml, text/json, text/x-json, text/javascript, text/xml
User-Agent: RestSharp/104.4.0.0
Host: api.dropbox.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
Here is the response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:31:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: keep-alive
x-content-type-options: nosniff
set-cookie: gvc=-------------------; expires=Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:31:00 GMT; httponly; Path=/; secure
x-server-response-time: 87
x-dropbox-request-id: ----------------
pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
x-dropbox-http-protocol: None
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Length: 690
{
"read_only":false,
"hash":"--------------------",
"revision":1615,
"bytes":0,
"thumb_exists":false,
"rev":"----------",
"modified":"Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:43:04 +0000",
"size":"0 bytes",
"path":"/Test",
"is_dir":true,
"modifier":null,
"root":"dropbox",
"contents":[
{
"rev":"--------------",
"thumb_exists":false,
"path":"/Test/Training Relevant Courses.txt",
"is_dir":false,
"client_mtime":"Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:21:29 +0000",
"icon":"page_white_text",
"read_only":false,
"modifier":null,
"bytes":2947,
"modified":"Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:21:29 +0000",
"size":"2.9 KB",
"root":"dropbox",
"mime_type":"text/plain",
"revision":1617
}
],
"icon":"folder"
}
Thanks for the help.
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