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Control log level in Sync API for iOS

I realise that the Sync API is now deprecated, but as an iOS developer working with a large existing Objective-C application I can't switch to the new Swift SDK, so I'm trying to make do.

One annoyance that I have is that the Sync SDK fills my logs with warnings (e.g. "device is offline") which I don't want to have. I switched from using the Core SDK to the Sync SDK specifically to allow my users to send files to Dropbox when their device isn't connected to the internet, and have the files synced automatically when they connect later.

In the Core SDK, there is a DBLog class which allows to control which log messages are printed, but there doesn't seem to be anything similar in the Sync API. Is there a solution to this?

Relatedly, when I download the Core SDK I get all the source .m files, whereas with the Sync SDK I only have access to the headers. Why is this? If I could access the code I'd be happy to turn these messages off manually. Since it's deprecated anyway, would Dropbox consider making the Sync SDK source code public?

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Greg-DB

Hi Paul, thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately, I don't believe there's a way to control the logging from the Sync SDK.

Also, the Sync SDK isn't open source like the Core SDK is, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request to make it open source.

Paul A.57

Hi Gregory – thanks for the reply, and for offering to pass the request along. Please let me know if you hear anything more about this.

Paul A.57

Also, another even bigger annoyance is that these warnings trigger Exception Breakpoints, so when I'm developing with a device that isn't connected to the internet it stops every few seconds due to the "device is offline" warning. I really need a way to turn this off!