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list_folder_continue api recursively produces increasingly longer cursor until timeout
We use recursive https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder and https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder/continue api endpoint to pull events from dropbox cloud from root folder. However, t...
Please open an API ticket with the account ID and a sample cursor that results in this error so we can check on that for you. Thanks!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffhhting Thanks for following up. I'll communicate this to the team.
Regarding the recursive: false option, you could still use that to list everything, but that would require you to update your code to make separate calls to /2/files/list_folder (and /2/files/list_folder/continue as needed) for each level.
Also, you don't need to do this in all cases; you could have your code automatically fall back to these potential workarounds only if/when the standard way fails.
Hi Greg-DB,
In our synchronization mechanism, we need to monitor all changes across the entire directory tree. This is why we require a cursor with the `recursive: true` option for long polling and fetching delta files.
If we use the `recursive: false` option, we would be able to monitor only one folder at a time and would need to manage thousands of cursors, which is currently impractical for our setup.
Therefore, we believe that addressing this issue on Dropbox's end would be a better solution for these users.
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