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Python SDK constant errors
Trying to make a small app that will read a pair of files from a dropbox folder and compile a small database from them. Just getting started, following the sample but I keep getting errors of different kinds.
I'm using virtualenv and have only installed dropbox and its dependencies using
pip install dropbox
This is my pip freeze:
appdirs==1.4.3 certifi==2017.4.17 chardet==3.0.3 dropbox==7.3.1 idna==2.5 packaging==16.8 pyparsing==2.2.0 requests==2.16.5 six==1.10.0 urllib3==1.21.1
Trying to run the files_list_folder example, I first had an issue that any folder name would not pass some regex validation. Even a name as simple as 'testFolder' would fail.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "process-dropbox.py", line 7, in <module>
for entry in dbx.files_list_folder('testFolder').entries:
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/base.py", line 710, in files_list_folder
include_has_explicit_shared_members)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/files.py", line 3180, in __init__
self.path = path
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/files.py", line 3204, in path
val = self._path_validator.validate(val)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/stone_validators.py", line 316, in validate
% (val, self.pattern))
dropbox.stone_validators.ValidationError: ‘testFolder’ did not match pattern '(/(.|[\r\n])*)?|(ns:[0-9]+(/.*)?)'
I decided to try an empty name (supposedly for the root directory) and that seems to pass the validation, but then it throws this error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "process-dropbox.py", line 5, in <module>
dbx.users_get_current_account()
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/base.py", line 3277, in users_get_current_account
None,
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 239, in request
timeout=timeout)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 330, in request_json_string_with_retry
timeout=timeout)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 414, in request_json_string
timeout=timeout,
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 570, in post
return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 523, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 643, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 440, in send
timeout=timeout
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 587, in urlopen
timeout_obj = self._get_timeout(timeout)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 302, in _get_timeout
return Timeout.from_float(timeout)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 154, in from_float
return Timeout(read=timeout, connect=timeout)
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 94, in __init__
self._connect = self._validate_timeout(connect, 'connect')
File ".../dbdata/backend/tests/dropbox/app-dropbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 127, in _validate_timeout
"int, float or None." % (name, value))
ValueError: Timeout value connect was Timeout(connect=30, read=30, total=None), but it must be an int, float or None.
I also tried users_get_current_account and got the same error.
Not sure where to go from here. This feels like the dependencies are perhaps not the right versions or something. I am not sure where to go from here.
Thanks in advance for any help.
- It looks like the ValueError issue is fixed in requests v2.17.1, so please update to that and let me know if you're still seeing any issues.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for writing in. Note that the first error is because non-root paths should start with a '/'. So, your path there should be "/testFolder", not "testFolder". The root path is identified by the empty path "".
The second error did start occurring with recent changes to the requests dependency. We're looking into that. As a workaround though, you can downgrade to requests v2.15.1.Thanks! By downgrading I have managed to run some of the API functions, but now I have another problem.
The app I started using has App Folder permissions (set to 'testFolder') and from what I can tell, the path used for endpoints is relative to that folder. So, if I want to list the contents of 'testFolder' I actually pass an empty path, correct?
Now, the issue is that I get an empty 'entries' array when I try to list the contents of 'testFolder' even though there is a file there.
I tested listing the contents of 'testFolder' with an app with 'Full Dropbox' permissions and it does list the file.Any idea what could be the issue?
- Greg-DBThat's correct, if your app has the "app folder" permission, everything your app does or "sees" is relative to the app folder itself. You would use "" to refer to the app folder itself, since it's your app's root, or "/subfolder", etc. to refer to something inside your app folder.
From your first paragraph, it sounds like "testFolder" is your app folder itself, so to list its contents you would use a path parameter of "". In your second paragraph, it sounds like you may be trying to specify "testFolder", which wouldn't be necessary. If you're still not seeing the expected results, please share the code and output.
Also, note that the full Dropbox version wouldn't be looking at the same files if you pass the same path string. I.e., using the path "/testFolder" would list the following folders, as seen on the Dropbox web site, for the respective permissions:
- full Dropbox: /testFolder
- app folder: /Apps/<app folder name>/testFolder
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