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Glority's avatar
Glority
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

why list_folder will not support include_media_info=true

The list_folder API does not support getting mediaInfo resulting in a large amount of IO. Will greatly affect the performance of my app.I can accept that List_folder will be a bit slower, but a lot o...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Thanks for the post! It sounds like you're referring to the recent deprecation of the 'include_media_info' parameter on /2/files/list_folder. Unfortunately this is necessary in order to support some changes on the Dropbox backend, but I'll send your feedback along to the team.

  • Glority's avatar
    Glority
    Helpful | Level 5
    6 years ago

    Or you can provide an API that can get all the Media info in a folder at once, which is acceptable.

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      6 years ago

      Thanks for the note! I can't make any promises, but I'll pass this along to the team.

      • viskin's avatar
        viskin
        New member | Level 2
        6 years ago

        Any news on this? We experience greate performance deterioration in our service which relies on list_folders, as we now should request media_info separately for each file in folder. Having batch version of get_metadata would be helpful.

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