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larschassing
8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
SwiftyDropbox createSharedLinkWithSettings (was createSharedLink)
Googling around led me to cocoadocs.org which seems to have an older version of SwiftyDropbox. It has createSharedLink(path:shortUrl:pendingUpload:) "Create a shared link. If a shared link already e...
- 8 years ago
The official documentation for the sharing routes for the latest version of SwiftyDropbox can be found be found here.
The createSharedLink method was deprecated in favor of createSharedLinkWithSettings to match updates to the Dropbox product itself.
If a link already exists, you can retrieve it using listSharedLinks.
- 8 years agoI can't make any promises as to if or when that would be added, but I'm sending that along as a feature request.
- 8 years ago
When I looked closer at listSharedLinks I noted the path and directOnly arguments, that helped.
This is what I ended up with:
func OldCreateSharedLink(url: URL, dropboxPath: String, completionHandler: @escaping (_ sharedLink: String) -> Void) { if let client = DropboxClientsManager.authorizedClient { let request = client.sharing.createSharedLinkWithSettings(path: dropboxPath) .response { response, error in if let response = response { print(response) completionHandler(response.url) } else if let error = error { print(error) switch error as CallError { case .routeError(let boxed, let requestId): print("RouteError[\(String(describing: requestId))]:") switch boxed.unboxed as Sharing.CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsError { case .sharedLinkAlreadyExists: let request2 = client.sharing.listSharedLinks(path: dropboxPath, cursor: nil, directOnly: true) .response { response, error in if let response = response { print(response) if let theFirstTheBest = response.links.first { completionHandler(theFirstTheBest.url) } } else if let error = error { print(error) } } print(request2) default: print("\(boxed.unboxed)") } default: break } } } print(request) } }
Thank you for your help
Greg-DB
8 years agoDropbox Staff
The official documentation for the sharing routes for the latest version of SwiftyDropbox can be found be found here.
The createSharedLink method was deprecated in favor of createSharedLinkWithSettings to match updates to the Dropbox product itself.
If a link already exists, you can retrieve it using listSharedLinks.
- larschassing8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Yes, I thought so, but then I need another round-trip and I have to parse the response searching for my file and bother with cursor...
Could you add a convenience method to work like the old createSharedLink, please ?
- Greg-DB8 years agoDropbox StaffI can't make any promises as to if or when that would be added, but I'm sending that along as a feature request.
- larschassing8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
When I looked closer at listSharedLinks I noted the path and directOnly arguments, that helped.
This is what I ended up with:
func OldCreateSharedLink(url: URL, dropboxPath: String, completionHandler: @escaping (_ sharedLink: String) -> Void) { if let client = DropboxClientsManager.authorizedClient { let request = client.sharing.createSharedLinkWithSettings(path: dropboxPath) .response { response, error in if let response = response { print(response) completionHandler(response.url) } else if let error = error { print(error) switch error as CallError { case .routeError(let boxed, let requestId): print("RouteError[\(String(describing: requestId))]:") switch boxed.unboxed as Sharing.CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsError { case .sharedLinkAlreadyExists: let request2 = client.sharing.listSharedLinks(path: dropboxPath, cursor: nil, directOnly: true) .response { response, error in if let response = response { print(response) if let theFirstTheBest = response.links.first { completionHandler(theFirstTheBest.url) } } else if let error = error { print(error) } } print(request2) default: print("\(boxed.unboxed)") } default: break } } } print(request) } }
Thank you for your help
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