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iOS API v2: possible to overwrite files at upload?
I'm using the objective-c SDK for Dropbox API v2 and trying to do something which should be remarkably simple: upload text files to the user's Dropbox folder and if any changes are made to the file o...
You can certainly overwrite files using the API. For example, use -uploadData:mode:autorename:clientModified:mute:inputData: and pass in the desired 'mode' parameter, which should be a DBFILESWriteMode. You can use the 'overwrite' mode, but using 'update' with a rev value is safer, as it prevents accidentally overwriting new data the app wasn't aware of.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffYou can certainly overwrite files using the API. For example, use -uploadData:mode:autorename:clientModified:mute:inputData: and pass in the desired 'mode' parameter, which should be a DBFILESWriteMode. You can use the 'overwrite' mode, but using 'update' with a rev value is safer, as it prevents accidentally overwriting new data the app wasn't aware of.
Thank you!
Though I'm still having trouble with this, and am unable to find any resolution elsewhere. Is this not the correct way to write this? "
dbclient.filesRoutes uploadData:fileName mode:DBFILESWriteModeOverwrite ..."
- Greg-DB
That woud look like this:
NSString *path = ... NSData *data = ... DBFILESWriteMode *mode = [[DBFILESWriteMode alloc] initWithOverwrite]; [[client.filesRoutes uploadData:path mode:mode autorename:false clientModified:nil mute:false inputData:data] response:^(DBFILESFileMetadata *metadata, DBFILESUploadError *routeError, DBRequestError *error) { if (metadata) { NSLog(@"%@\n", metadata); } else { NSLog(@"%@\n%@\n", routeError, error); } }];
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