get revisions for folder (e.g. detect name change)

landdogger

It's straightforward to get the revision (i.e. "rev") property from files with FileMetadata objects, but I noticed that there is no revision property for FolderMetadata objects.

 

I was hoping to use the revision property to detect when a folder name has changed, but it seems like this isn't accessible through the API right now. Is this correct?

Greg-DB

For both files and folders, you can use the 'id' value from the FileMetadata or FolderMetadata object. That ID does not change when an item is renamed/moved, so you can use it to track items across such changes.