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Any way to get mixed-case path for a file?

Avi F.

My app will display the full path of files. They look kinda strange (unfamiliar) when all lower-cased, which is all I seem to be able to access from a FileMetadata value. Is there any way to get the mixed-case path for a file with the v2 API?

Thank you!

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Greg-DB

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34667886/dropbox-v2-api-is-there-any-way-to-get-the-original-mixed-case-path-of-from-a-f ]

FileMetadata.name will contain the case-preserved name, so you would need to build the path up from that.

Avi F.

Thanks Gregory! I should have been clearer — I’m aware that I could walk up the path and get the full mixed-case name of each path segment, but that would require either many different HTTP requests or a sophisticated caching facility within my application. I’m wondering if there’s any way to retrieve this data with a single request — or even better, ideally, as a property in each FileMetadata value (e.g. in arrays).

If there’s no way to do this, I’d like to make this a feature request. Is there a formal way to do so?

Thanks!

Greg-DB

Thanks for clarifying! No, there isn't a single call way to get it like that. I'll send this along as a feature request to the team though.

Avi F.

Got it, thanks Gregory! Happy new year!

Greg-DB

Quick update, the FileMetadata object now contains a "path_display" property. You can read more about it in the documentation.

Avi F.

Wow, thanks Gregory! I really appreciate it!