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7 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
2/files/get_metadata 409 path/not_found
We have been seeing the following 409 error recently on multiple customers where get_metadata fails with 409 path/not found. But later when diagnosing the problem the same call works fine. Is there a possibility that this API call fail soon(like couple of minutes) after the file uploaded.
curl -X POST \ https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata \ -H 'authorization: Bearer <Redacted>' \ -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \ -H 'content-type: application/json' \ -H 'dropbox-api-select-user: dbmid:AAA8Po3CW3EaZ70sT3HalBKsIgTG91nKmgI' \ -d '{ "path": "id:YKwssHaJWqAAAAAAAAAtKw", "include_has_explicit_shared_members": true, "include_deleted": true }'
Failure response
HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict responseBody='{"error_summary": "path/not_found/...", "error": {".tag": "path", "path": {".tag": "not_found"}}}', respHeaders=[ Server: nginx, Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:21:42 GMT Content-Type: application/json Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Content-Security-Policy: sandbox; frame-ancestors 'none' X-Dropbox-Request-Id: b04b42db9cead7dd8f2fc966e0d63ab3 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='error' ]
Success response body,
{ ".tag": "file", "name": "**redacted**", "path_lower": "**redacted**", "path_display": "**redacted**", "parent_shared_folder_id": "2830010752", "id": "id:YKwssHaJWqAAAAAAAAAtKw", "client_modified": "2016-08-19T00:05:39Z", "server_modified": "2018-04-06T14:42:39Z", "rev": "1d55a8ae8980", "size": 1475, "sharing_info": { "read_only": false, "parent_shared_folder_id": "2830010752", "modified_by": "dbid:AAAHCnrxGJ80Wp57W0bGPk5jG9iQKCLHxOI" }, "has_explicit_shared_members": false, "content_hash": "b5150c9c0885975187a3a3a80c4ae63c94b52cf8a51ecca702220472753e48cf" }
- Greg-DBDropbox StaffThanks for the report! There shouldn't be a delay for getting file metadata like this after a file is uploaded.
I just looked into this, and as far as I can tell, that error was correct at that time. I can't disclose private account information of course, but it is possible for users to gain/lose access to files or folders over time, which would explain changing API results.
For example, a user can add or remove (or be added or removed from) a shared folder at any point in time, which would change whether or not they have access to that file's metadata.- Info V.1Collaborator | Level 8
We have had multiple instances of this, where for eg. in a Team folder on which a Group had access, a user who was always part of this group uploads a file, we get the event and the fileId, and we try to run get_metadata on the file Id, with as-user as the same user, it was failing with 409 path not found.
What information would you need the next time we run into the same issue?
- Greg-DBDropbox StaffI just double checked this, and again there doesn't seem to have been an issue here. It's important to keep in mind that users/shared folder owners can move around content, and change permissions, at any point in time. It's also possible for any particular user to not actually be a member of a team folder (or of a group with access to a team folder).
For example, a user can upload a file in a shared folder, and then someone else move that file to a different shared folder that the user doesn't have access to (yet, perhaps).
- InderjeetdevHelpful | Level 5
I noticed a file name used in code was deleted on Dropbox, so its details couldn't be fetched in code, which triggered this 409 error.
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