File Listing in Ascending/Descending order

Naga Abhinaya T

Hi,

 

We have File/Folder listing based on Alphabetical sorting in Dropbox UI. Is there a way to achieve the same using REST APIs? Also, In what order, are the files/folders given as response from the api? (like based on creation time or modified time or alphabetical order)Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Greg-DB

The Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to sort/order files server-side, e.g., when using /2/files/list_folder[/continue], but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

The order they are returned in is the order you should process them in, in order to receive an accurate representation of the remote state of the Dropbox folder.

That being the case, you'll need to download and process the entries in the order provided, and then apply whatever ordering you want client-side for your UI.