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.
Forum Discussion
Able to poll for Shared Folders after user Adds to Dropbox but not Shared Files - Java SDK
Hi,
I'm using the Java Core SDK version 3.1.3
We have a mechanism of long polling for the changes in the User's Account.
Our Application doesn't have any of the scopes for teams .
For a regular user (Non Team) we're able to get the "events" for a shared folder if the user chooses to "Add to Dropbox"
But we're not getting the shared files using the cursor to get the changes using the following API
files().listFolderContinue(cursor); The files don't have an option to "Add to Dropbox" (atleast at the receiver's end) .
So how do we go about knowing if a file has been shared to an account ?
Continuously comparing all shared files using
sharing().listReceivedFiles()
isn't a good idea since our users have thousands of files.
Using the Business APIs is a different beast but if someone can tell me how to use the Long Poll method / webhook for shared files that would be great .
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to continuously monitor "received" shared files (like webhooks or longpolling), but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
Using the listReceivedFiles/listReceivedFilesContinue methods is the right way to see what files the account has received. You can get a ListReceivedFilesBuilder as returned by listReceivedFilesBuilder to use ListReceivedFilesBuilder.withLimit to increase how many files you get back per call though, if that helps.
Thanks for the reply Greg-DB . I read somewhere about the Business APIs being of some help but I didn't see any API to continuously monitor "received" shared files.
Did the documentation mean that we might get shared files in the webhook/longpoll for Dropbox Business Account or something else ?- Greg-DB
Are you referring to the getEvents/getEventsContinue functionality? That's a way to monitor events occurring on a Dropbox Business team. That log would include shared file events, but it can only be used by Business teams, with the 'events.read' team scope.
About Dropbox API Support & Feedback
Find help with the Dropbox API from other developers.
