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Andrew Janowczyk commented on CONNECTORS-676:
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regarding the path, it should be very easy to remove it because its only
appearing on the front end. i left it there because its a lot easier to remove
things than it is to add them (again taken from the CMIS connector) : )
regarding the cursor: its a proprietary string and is in read only format.
basically we'd have to save the value which is given to us and then pass it
back when we want the delta. there is no way to create a cursor as far as i can
tell from their documentation. the additional complication is that sometimes an
additional flag is set "reset" which implies that the delta isn't valid and a
full review is necessary. from what you described, this doesn't seem to be too
valuable for us.
whats interesting is that when you request the files from the dropbox api it
returns all files in a single response, i.e. you don't need to walk a path to
get all files. the only way to know what directory they are in is by examining
their path. this actually made the discovery much easier as the getSeeds
function will actually be able to obtain every single document in a single
iteration of the returned file list.
> When one of these errors happens, what DropboxException gets thrown? That's
> not clear at all, AFAICT.
that is exactly my point. it always returns an exception of the superclass
"DropboxException", but i have no idea what individual ones are supported/used
from their api. from my developmen i always looked at the exception message
string because "DropboxException" isn't very informative. i'm not sure how to
get more fine grained than that.
> Connector for dropbox
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> Key: CONNECTORS-676
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-676
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Dropbox connector
> Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 1.1.1
> Reporter: Andrew Janowczyk
> Assignee: Karl Wright
> Fix For: ManifoldCF 1.2
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> Attachments: dropbox-patch.patch
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> Pretty straight forward. It'd be nice to have a connector which can read from
> dropbox.
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