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RespondPageWithJSRedirect() - where is this defined?
Hi, I am trying to set-up a Dropbox connection in .NET (Xamarin to be precise). I am following http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_DropboxOAuth2Helper.htm. When I start ty...
Apologies for the confusion! The SDK doesn't offer an implementation of RespondPageWithJSRedirect. That's intended to be whatever page you wish to show to the user at that point in the process. (E.g., it can optionally contain a message for the user, and whatever branding/styling you want for your app.)
Here's where this is done in the example, and here's the HTML page, including the minimum JavaScript necessary, used for that example.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffApologies for the confusion! The SDK doesn't offer an implementation of RespondPageWithJSRedirect. That's intended to be whatever page you wish to show to the user at that point in the process. (E.g., it can optionally contain a message for the user, and whatever branding/styling you want for your app.)
Here's where this is done in the example, and here's the HTML page, including the minimum JavaScript necessary, used for that example.
Hi Greg,
Thanks for that. Sorry for slow response, but was away for Xmas, and now spent a while trying to get it working before replying. Making progress, but stuck now (and not getting as far as the RespondPageWithJSRedirect() code to see if that works unfortunately :-( ).
On Win10 I get as far as the System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(authorizeUri.ToString()); line, and get Exception thrown: 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' in System.Diagnostics.Process.dll (Googling this not proving very helpful).
Tried on my Android phone when I got stuck on Windows, and only got to the previous line - http.Start(); - though I'm not sure what the problem is as Android throws out an awful lot of messages and I'm not sure what it is I'm looking for there?
BTW I'm still not sure I have the redirectUri set-up correctly (and could be the problem to begin with here) - responses here always amount to "you can put whatever you want there", which isn't helpful if you don't know what to put there to begin with! I'm using this (as per the code on your page)...
private const string LoopbackHost = "http://127.0.0.1:52475/";
private readonly Uri RedirectUri = new Uri(LoopbackHost + "authorize");
private readonly Uri JSRedirectUri = new Uri(LoopbackHost + "token");So on Dropbox in the redirectUri, should that be "http://127.0.0.1/authorize", or "http://127.0.0.1:52475" or "http://127.0.0.1:52475/authorize", or...? I'm also not sure how to check on unused ports if it comes to that (I found a command, but the command doesn't say whether it's listing used or unused ports! And I don't know if the above message is because that port is busy or something else).
thanks,
Donald.
- Greg-DB
Are you getting that error when trying to run the "SimpleTest" sample app? Have you made any modifications (other than plugging in an app key)? I just tried it in Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10 and I didn't get that error unfortunately. Is there any other output in the log?
To clarify, are you also trying to run the "SimpleTest" on Android? That sample wasn't written for Android, nor does the .NET SDK itself officially support Android.
Based on that code snippet, the redirect URI would be "http://127.0.0.1:52475/authorize".
I can't offer insight on checking the ports on a system though, as that's not part of Dropbox.
Hi Greg,
> Are you getting that error when trying to run the "SimpleTest" sample app?
I was coding my own test app from scratch, but following those 2 examples, so the answer is yes, kinda. Your remark has made me think I'll just try running the whole SimpleTest as is, and see if that works for me as is... but as I've found previously (like missing usings), there's a bunch of details that have been left out. See below for all the error messages I got.
> Is there any other output in the log?
Lots of messages, as usual, but only 2 errors. The 2nd was with the httplistener, and was further down, so may have been a flow-on from the first error. trying to fix the 1st error 1st, and see if that also fixes the 2nd error.
> To clarify, are you also trying to run the "SimpleTest" on Android? That sample wasn't written for Android, nor does the .NET SDK itself officially support Android.
As mentioned, I'm using Xamarin, which supports UWP, iOS and Android (plus some other platforms too). Coding is done in C#/.NET, and Xamarin takes care of the platform stuff in the background. They do have a Xamarin.Dropbox.Api - apparently they had to do a few hacks to make the Dropbox.Api work with Xamarin (maybe related to the fact that .NET doesn't officially support Android?) - and that is the one I'm using. It's available in nuget.
> Based on that code snippet, the redirect URI would be "http://127.0.0.1:52475/authorize".
Thanks.
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error CS0246 The type or namespace name 'WebRequestHandler' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 67 Active
Error CS0103 The name 'Settings' does not exist in the current context SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 220 Active
Error CS0103 The name 'Settings' does not exist in the current context SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 224 Active
Error CS0103 The name 'ApiKey' does not exist in the current context SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 232 Active
Error CS0103 The name 'Settings' does not exist in the current context SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 261 Active
Error CS0103 The name 'Settings' does not exist in the current context SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 262 Active
Error CS0103 The name 'Settings' does not exist in the current context SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 264 Active
Error CS1061 'FullAccount' does not contain a definition for 'RootInfo' and no accessible extension method 'RootInfo' accepting a first argument of type 'FullAccount' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 343 Active
Error CS1061 'DropboxClient' does not contain a definition for 'WithPathRoot' and no accessible extension method 'WithPathRoot' accepting a first argument of type 'DropboxClient' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 352 Active
Error CS0426 The type name 'Root' does not exist in the type 'PathRoot' SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 352 Active
Error CS1061 'FullAccount' does not contain a definition for 'RootInfo' and no accessible extension method 'RootInfo' accepting a first argument of type 'FullAccount' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 352 Active
Error CS0246 The type or namespace name 'PathRootException' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) SimpleTest D:\Users\Donald\Source\Repos\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\SimpleTest\App.cs 355 Active
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