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API - How to stop an upload?

Hi there,

I've built an app using the JavaScript SDK where users can upload files to a folder.

Sometimes users are uploading big files eg a few GB and they decide they want to stop uploading the file.

I don't see a method on how to do that - neither with filesUpload nor with filesUploadSessionStart, filesUploadSessionAppendV2, filesUploadSessionFinish methods.

Could you guide me on how to achieve that? I am particularly interested in stopping the chunked uploading

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Greg-DB

The Dropbox API v2 JavaScript API v2 SDK doesn't offer the ability to cancel an individual request, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

For upload sessions though, since it involves multiple calls, you can stop the process in between any of the individual filesUploadSession* method calls, since you control the execution flow of those; that is, stop making any further such calls when the user indicates they want to cancel.

manos77

thanks Greg, that's what I was trying and I finally made it work!

just in case someone bumps on the same issue:

within the upload example there is the following:

const task = workItems.reduce((acc, blob, idx, items) => {

which has three instances of:

return acc.then(function(sessionId) {

what you need to do is add a line in the beginning of all 3 above instances

if( fileUploadShouldBeAborted ) return

obviously, fileUploadShouldBeAborted has to be populated by you somehow

and then you also need to handle the case that the upload has been completed,

which can only be solved by making another call to delete the file