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Able to poll for Shared Folders after user Adds to Dropbox but not Shared Files - Java SDK

Hi,
I'm using the Java Core SDK version 3.1.3
We have a mechanism of long polling for the changes in the User's Account.
Our Application doesn't have any of the scopes for teams .
For a regular user (Non Team) we're able to get the "events" for a shared folder if the user chooses to "Add to Dropbox"
But we're not getting the shared files using the cursor to get the changes using the following API

files().listFolderContinue(cursor);

The files don't have an option to "Add to Dropbox" (atleast at the receiver's end) .
So how do we go about knowing if a file has been shared to an account ?
Continuously comparing all shared files using

sharing().listReceivedFiles()

isn't a good idea since our users have thousands of files.
Using the Business APIs is a different beast but if someone can tell me how to use the Long Poll method / webhook for shared files that would be great .

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Greg-DB

Unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to continuously monitor "received" shared files (like webhooks or longpolling), but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

Using the listReceivedFiles/listReceivedFilesContinue methods is the right way to see what files the account has received. You can get a ListReceivedFilesBuilder as returned by listReceivedFilesBuilder to use ListReceivedFilesBuilder.withLimit to increase how many files you get back per call though, if that helps.

apo1397

Thanks for the reply @Greg-DB . I read somewhere about the Business APIs being of some help but I didn't see any API to continuously monitor "received" shared files.
Did the documentation mean that we might get shared files in the webhook/longpoll for Dropbox Business Account or something else ?

Greg-DB

Are you referring to the getEvents/getEventsContinue functionality? That's a way to monitor events occurring on a Dropbox Business team. That log would include shared file events, but it can only be used by Business teams, with the 'events.read' team scope.