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Re: How to get last modified date for folders in Dropbox V2 API ?
Hi Greg_K.
This is making it very complex and, I think, requiring lots of unnecessary API calls.
When a new folder is uploaded, I need to make a playlist from the mp3 files and share it.
So I detect when the folder is likely to be "settled" by seeing if the most recent file is older than 5 minutes. At which point I run
sharingCreateSharedLinkWithSettings for each file to generate a playlist to save an API call each time.
But what if an item gets added, removed or changed? There is no way of knowing which item, so I have to run the create link on all the items, each time, with
result.url...
or "catch" the error, and then look for result.error.error.shared_link_already_exists.metadata.url
To have content_hash on folders would be amazing and save all those calls!
(To have public-style folders back would be even more amazing!)
Unless I am missing a trick here?
To monitor changes on a folder like this, I recommend using the cursor functionality offered by /2/files/list_folder[/continue]. You can store the latest returned 'cursor' from any /2/files/list_folder[/continue] result, and then later call back to /2/files/list_folder/continue to get information about only what's changed since you last called. That way you don't have to process everything over again.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
To monitor changes on a folder like this, I recommend using the cursor functionality offered by /2/files/list_folder[/continue]. You can store the latest returned 'cursor' from any /2/files/list_folder[/continue] result, and then later call back to /2/files/list_folder/continue to get information about only what's changed since you last called. That way you don't have to process everything over again.
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