User Space Over Quota Exception

Naga Abhinaya T

Hi,

 

I am developing an app with Dropbox APIs. I am using dropbox-core-sdk-1.8.2.jar currently. What exception is thrown if the user space quota gets over? How can I keep track of the user quota?

On getting the user's accountInfo, I get details such as quota.total, quota.shared and quota.normal. What do they signify? can I get to know the available space in Dropbox for that user using these details?

Please help. Thanks in advance.

Greg-DB

The Java SDK v1.8.2 is for API v1, which is deprecated:

 

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2016/06/api-v1-deprecated/

 

You should instead use the latest version, which uses API v2:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/java

 

When using that, if you try to upload to an account that's currently over quota, you'll get an UploadErrorException indicating the issue. Specifically, it will have an UploadError.path with a WriteError.isInsufficientSpace.

 

In code, that means you can do something like this:

 

        } catch (UploadErrorException ex) {
            System.err.println("Error uploading to Dropbox: " + ex.getMessage());
            if (ex.errorValue.isPath()) {
                if (ex.errorValue.getPathValue().getReason().isInsufficientSpace()) {
                    System.err.println("Couldn't upload because the account has insufficient space.");
                }
            }

 

To check the available space, you can use getSpaceUsage. The returned values are documented in SpaceUsage.