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Folder path not found?
Happy Weekend all. Hope you're doing well. I'm aiming to generate image url from dropbox using Development feature. I faced a challenge where the folder path is not found. I'm sure that the folder path is correct and all the images are located in that folder. Here is my snippet code in Python:
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Would you mind share your thoughts and suggestions to me? Thank you and have a great weekend!
Hi morranjuke,
Such thing could happen for variety of reasons. The information you provided is not enough for limiting them.
To be aware where you're going on, start with empty string as a path when listing the folder and navigate to the right direction. Your path may be correct, but it's not clear where your API is rooted currently (there are variety of options); unexpected rooting may make you correct path become incorrect!
When constructing your file path, you use OS related path join; that's NOT always correct and can be reason for such a message. Keep in mind that you're constructing Dropbox path, not path to some local file (in your OS)! Make sure you're using POSIX path join or construct it as a string (slash separator, not backslash or something else - the same rule as for your folder path). Even more, to avoid any error and use correct path formatting, better use the path in metadata (in listing result - not the name) instead of constructing yourself (the path there should be ready for use) or use the file ID on link creation.
Other error you may expect is when a link already exists. You haven't handled such a case in any way. The exception thrown may contain existing link (in such a case you can just grab it) or you may need to take it explicitly with listing direct link (when missing in the exception).
Hope this gives directions.
PS: If the application you're working on is "LEGO image for PBI Dashboard" and that folder is not some just existing - left from other application, your path is incorrect definitely. 🙂 In such a case you have to use just "/Image" as path! App folder type applications use the application specific folder as API root and all path are relative to that folder. 😉
Hi morranjuke,
Such thing could happen for variety of reasons. The information you provided is not enough for limiting them.
To be aware where you're going on, start with empty string as a path when listing the folder and navigate to the right direction. Your path may be correct, but it's not clear where your API is rooted currently (there are variety of options); unexpected rooting may make you correct path become incorrect!
When constructing your file path, you use OS related path join; that's NOT always correct and can be reason for such a message. Keep in mind that you're constructing Dropbox path, not path to some local file (in your OS)! Make sure you're using POSIX path join or construct it as a string (slash separator, not backslash or something else - the same rule as for your folder path). Even more, to avoid any error and use correct path formatting, better use the path in metadata (in listing result - not the name) instead of constructing yourself (the path there should be ready for use) or use the file ID on link creation.
Other error you may expect is when a link already exists. You haven't handled such a case in any way. The exception thrown may contain existing link (in such a case you can just grab it) or you may need to take it explicitly with listing direct link (when missing in the exception).
Hope this gives directions.
PS: If the application you're working on is "LEGO image for PBI Dashboard" and that folder is not some just existing - left from other application, your path is incorrect definitely. 🙂 In such a case you have to use just "/Image" as path! App folder type applications use the application specific folder as API root and all path are relative to that folder. 😉
- Hi @Здравко, thanks for your advice! Let me try your suggestion and come back to you as soon as possible
Hi @Здравко,
Thanks for your advice! Let me try and come back to you as soon as possible.
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