Hi Dropbox dev community!
We're having a bit of a problem with the .Net SDK on our UWP app : we're using response.GetContentAsStreamAsync() after getting the path of a file on a dropbox account, for progression measurement and having it non blocking for our UI (context : we're on a Hololens inside a Unity app). We used to go for response.GetContentAsByteArrayAsync() before but on bigger files, the hololens memory just doesn't hold up and usually crashes the entire download task. So we went for a stream for progressively downloading and saving the file locally. This is our current code :
ulong fileSize = response.Response.Size;
int bufferSize = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
var buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
ulong downloadProgress = 0;
using (var stream = await response.GetContentAsStreamAsync())
{
int byteReadLength = stream.Read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
while (byteReadLength > 0)
{
using (var outputStream = fileStream.GetOutputStreamAt(downloadProgress))
{
using (var writer = new DataWriter(outputStream))
{
writer.WriteBytes(buffer);
await writer.StoreAsync();
await outputStream.FlushAsync();
}
}
downloadProgress += (ulong)buffer.Length;
if (downloadProgress > fileSize)
break;
if (downloadProgress + (ulong)bufferSize > fileSize)
{
bufferSize = (int)(fileSize - downloadProgress);
}
byteReadLength = stream.Read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
}
}
First things first : on usage, this code seems to work, the streaming seems to happen chunk by chunk of 4mb and the save to file does create an adequately sized result on the ****** drive. Keep in mind this runs on a Hololens, the main reason we force the file save during the stream read loop is because we do not have the memory capacity to fully load ****** (300mb+) files into RAM.
But... when trying to open the downloaded file locally, may it be a video, a (really ******) text file or a picture, it's always corrupted. And further analysis of the file indicates that :
- the first 4mb chunk went through correctly
- the rest is just 0x00 bytes with occasional nonsensical clutter every 100mbs or so
So, we kinda have a few questions:
- are we doing something wrong?
- why is there no EOF on stream? We had to do the downloadProgress check stuff to check we weren't getting more data than was expected, because we managed to fill up a Hololens' entire HDD with one download that never ended
Small remark : yes, we know the SDK is not really compatible with Unity, but at this point in the app, the context is full UWP, completely separate from the Unity main thread. Also, it works with the GetContentAsByteArrayAsync() method, only that the Hololens doesn't like getting blasted with so much live memory usage.
thank you 
