Unknown error on upload

philman

Dear support,

 

I would like to upload files to my Dropbox Application via Qt in c++ but it returns "unknown error" despite the "curl -X POST" equivalent is working like a charm in CLI mode.

Do you what is wrong?

 

Here the code in QT Creator I wrote:

dropbox.h

#ifndef DROPBOX_H
#define DROPBOX_H

#include <QObject>
#include <QtNetwork/QNetworkAccessManager>

class DropBox : public QNetworkAccessManager
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    explicit DropBox(QObject *parent = nullptr) : QNetworkAccessManager(parent) {}
    void upload(const QString filename);

signals:

public slots:

private:

};

#endif // DROPBOX_H

dropbox.cpp

#include "dropbox.h"

#include <QFile>
#include <QNetworkReply>

void DropBox::upload(const QString filename)
{
    QNetworkRequest request(QUrl("https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload"));

    request.setRawHeader(QByteArray("Authorization"), QByteArray("Bearer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"));
    QString dropboxArg = QString("{\"path\": \"/mouvdetect/QtHumanDetector/%1\",\"mode\": \"add\",\"autorename\": true,\"mute\": false,\"strict_conflict\": false}").arg(filename);
    request.setRawHeader(QByteArray("Dropbox-API-Arg"), dropboxArg.toUtf8());
    request.setRawHeader(QByteArray("Content-Type"), QByteArray("application/octet-stream"));

    QFile *file = new QFile(filename);
    file->open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
    QByteArray content = file->readAll();
    request.setRawHeader(QByteArray("Content-Length"), QByteArray::number(content.size()));

    QNetworkReply *reply = this->post(request, content);

    QObject::connect(reply,
                     &QNetworkReply::finished,
                     [=](){
                        QString err = reply->errorString();
                        QString contents = QString::fromUtf8(reply->readAll());
                        qInfo() << "Error:" << err;});
}

In the above code, please replace the automatic emoji with "opening bracket equal sign closing bracket"

 

Please tell me if you need more information on how to compile and run this code with Qt Creator.

 

Best regards,

Philman

Greg-DB

I don't believe the "unknown error" message is coming from Dropbox itself, so it's likely coming from the client you're using. We can't provide support for the client itself though, as it's not made by Dropbox.

 

Can you enable any extra logging or verbose mode though? If the Dropbox API request itself is failing, the Dropbox API HTTPS response would contain a more helpful error message.