Downloading File to Another Server Instead of Locally

Seapoe

I see that the download function has an overload that specifies a destination. I'd like to download a file dropbox to a webserver I've setup without saving it locally. I'm a little confused by the closure it's defined as ((URL, HTTPURLResponse) -> URL). I couldn't find any documentation as to what that argument should be. Any help or direction to documentation with more detail about this function? I'm on IOS Swift 3

Greg-DB

It sounds like you're referring to the download method in SwiftyDropbox:

 

https://dropbox.github.io/SwiftyDropbox/api-docs/latest/Classes/FilesRoutes.html#/s:FC13SwiftyDropbox11FilesRoutes8downloadFT4pathSS3revGSqSS_9overwriteSb11destinationFTV10Foundation3URLCSo15HTTPURLResponse_S2__GCS_19DownloadRequestFileCCS_5Files22FileMetadataSerializerCS5_23DownloadErrorSerializer_

 

There's an example of using that method here:

 

https://github.com/dropbox/SwiftyDropbox#download-style-request

 

The URLs being referred to there are local file URLs, not on a remote server.

 

If you want to download from Dropbox to a server directly, we recommend running download code on the server itself. You can use the relevant SDK or third party library, if any, or use the HTTPS endpoints directly, for that, depending on what your server is running:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/communitysdks
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/overview