Problems using the API in remote Web Server

Nora B.3

I'm developing a web app using Dropbox API.

When I run Jboss server in my laptop, uploading a file to dropbox works fine. But when I run the server remotely, the uploadFile method doesn't recognise the path that I'm writing in my web app. It recognises only paths from the server's machine.

The same happens when I download a file. The downloaded file is stored in the remote server, not in the computer that runs the web app.

Is there any way to solve that?

Greg-DB

When running an app, the code will use the file system of the machine it's running on. In the case of a web app, that's the server it's running on, so when you deploy it to your remote server, it will use that server's filesystem, and not your computer's.

If you want the web app to interact with files on the user's computer, where the browser is running, you'll need to develop a way for data to be sent between the browser and server. E.g., let the user upload files using a file input. That's outside the scope of Dropbox API support so I'm afraid I can't offer help on that though.