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ADoncel's avatar
ADoncel
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Naming "Dropbox timestamp"

Hello,

 

I would like to suggest an addition in the Dropbox API documentation, because in nowhere it is clear that the argument is a Dropbox timestamp not a Unix timestamp. Also, there is no documentation about "Dropbox timestamp" or what it refers to, at least not in the Python API, because of this I cannot know the format of it, or accepted values.

 

So, when you try what I know for timestamp, you get this error ValidationError: expected timestamp and got interger, since timestamp is not a type on Python I didn't know what was "timestamp", because for me as for any developer in this world, I suppose, the type timestamp makes reference to Unix timestamp, if you only mention that word, so I would change that ValidationError to be a bit more specific.

 

I just though it was interesting to make it clear for everyone.

 

Thank you for your time.

  • Thanks for the feedback! I'll ask the team to clarify this in the documentation.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    Thanks for the feedback! I'll ask the team to clarify this in the documentation.