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VahagnGhaz
6 years agoExplorer | Level 3
How to get meta data of current path
Hi ! I just need to get metadata of my current path, so I use
dropbox.Dropbox(my_token).files_get_metadata('')
But I got this error
dropbox.stone_validators.ValidationError: '' did not match pattern '(/(.|[ ......)'
I tried '.' , '/' instead of ' ' , but i got the same error
It's strange, cause when I want to list my current dictionaries files/folder with the code below, I get the result I need:
dropbox.Dropbox(my_token).files_list_folder('').entries
So is there any way I can get my current dictionarie's metadata.
Thank you !
- Greg-DBDropbox Staff
Retrieving the metadata for the root folder ('') is not supported. It doesn't have any specific metadata to return, but you can list its contents, as you found. Accordingly, attempting 'files_get_metadata' will fail.
You can get the metadata for a non-root folder by specifying the path, e.g., like "/FolderName".
- VahagnGhazExplorer | Level 3Okay, thanks for your reply.
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