You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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dahunter
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
how to extract name and pathdisplay from swiftydropbox searchv2 results
I have an app in which I was using the SwiftyDropbox function client.files.search and now I'm upgrading to the new client.files.searchV2 However, the results have also changed structure (t...
- 5 years ago
With the new method, you can access the metadata like this:
client.files.searchV2(query: query).response { response, error in if let response = response { for entry in response.matches { switch entry.metadata { case .metadata(let metadata): switch metadata { case let fileMetadata as Files.FileMetadata: print("File name: \(fileMetadata.name)") print("File display path: \(fileMetadata.pathDisplay ?? "")") case let folderMetadata as Files.FolderMetadata: print("Folder name: \(folderMetadata.name)") print("Folder display path: \(folderMetadata.pathDisplay ?? "")") case let deletedMetadata as Files.DeletedMetadata: print("Deleted entry name: \(deletedMetadata.name)") default: print("unknown metadata type") } default: print("unknown entry type") } print("") } } else if let error = error { print(error) } }
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
With the new method, you can access the metadata like this:
client.files.searchV2(query: query).response { response, error in if let response = response { for entry in response.matches { switch entry.metadata { case .metadata(let metadata): switch metadata { case let fileMetadata as Files.FileMetadata: print("File name: \(fileMetadata.name)") print("File display path: \(fileMetadata.pathDisplay ?? "")") case let folderMetadata as Files.FolderMetadata: print("Folder name: \(folderMetadata.name)") print("Folder display path: \(folderMetadata.pathDisplay ?? "")") case let deletedMetadata as Files.DeletedMetadata: print("Deleted entry name: \(deletedMetadata.name)") default: print("unknown metadata type") } default: print("unknown entry type") } print("") } } else if let error = error { print(error) } }
dahunter
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks so much!
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