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Getting File Metadata after doing upload - Android

To upload in Android I am using

sDbxClient.files().uploadBuilder(pathName)
      .withMode(WriteMode.OVERWRITE)
      .uploadAndFinish(inputStream);

which returns, what? The docs say it returns the server response as a "R". How do I extract the file metadata from the server response to uploadAndFinish? I want to get the server modified time from it.

I am looking for something equivalent to what I do in Objective-C, where is use the completion block of uploadData:mode:autorename:clientModified:mute:inputData:.

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Greg-DB

R is the response, containing the metadata of the uploaded file. So, for example in this case you could do something like:

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(localPath);
try {
    FileMetadata fileMetadata = client.files().uploadBuilder(remotePath)
            .withMode(WriteMode.OVERWRITE)
            .uploadAndFinish(inputStream);
    System.out.println(fileMetadata.getName());
    System.out.println(fileMetadata.getServerModified());
} finally {
    inputStream.close();
}

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Greg-DB

R is the response, containing the metadata of the uploaded file. So, for example in this case you could do something like:

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(localPath);
try {
    FileMetadata fileMetadata = client.files().uploadBuilder(remotePath)
            .withMode(WriteMode.OVERWRITE)
            .uploadAndFinish(inputStream);
    System.out.println(fileMetadata.getName());
    System.out.println(fileMetadata.getServerModified());
} finally {
    inputStream.close();
}

Robert S.138

Thanks, it seems to work. I thought it might be something like that. But starting from the official docs for uploadAndFinish, all I could see was that it returned type R. Where in the docs was I supposed to see that R was FileMetadata in this case?

Greg-DB

UploadBuilder gives you an UploadUploader which is documented as DbxUploader<FileMetadata,UploadError,UploadErrorException>.

That's definitely unclear/difficult to find if you're looking at uploadAndFinish itself though, so I'll ask the team to clarify that in the documentation. Thanks!