Recently I had to extract the links of all the files shared in my dropbox.
Following was the first approach I used.
public List getLinks(DbxClientV2 client) throws DbxException {
List result = new ArrayList();
ListSharedLinksResult sharedLinksResult = client.sharing().listSharedLinks();
for (SharedLinkMetadata slm : sharedLinksResult.getLinks()) {
result.add(slm.getUrl());
}
return result;
}
At first sight, this method seems to work perfectly fine. However, there is a
glitch in the approach. The method
ListSharedLinksResult sharedLinksResult = client.sharing().listSharedLinks();
actually doesn't return all the result. It returns few items at a time. We can know whether there are more items or not by using
sharedLinksResult.getHasMore();
which returns
True if there are more items left,
False otherwise.
So if there are more items left, then we need to extract them as well.
sharedLinksResult has a
cursor, which can be used to extract additional items. This can be done using:
client.sharing().listSharedLinks(new ListSharedLinksArg((String)null, sharedLinksResult.getCursor(), true));
But its not as easy as it looks. The problem is that the overloaded method
listSharedLinks(ListSharedLinksArg) is not a Public Method. So you cannot you use just anywhere in your code.
Hack!!!
I managed to use this, by placing my class into the same package where the class
DbxUserSharingRequests lie i.e.
com.dropbox.core.v2. Obviously, this is not a clean approach.
Solution
As it turns out, the solution is to use
DbxUserSharingRequests.listSharedLinksBuilder()
where we can set the
Cursor from
sharedLinksResult.
Following is my final solution:
public List getLinks(DbxClientV2 client) throws DbxException {
List result = new ArrayList();
ListSharedLinksResult sharedLinksResult = client.sharing().listSharedLinks();
while(true) {
for (SharedLinkMetadata slm : sharedLinksResult.getLinks()) {
result.add(slm.getUrl());
}
if (sharedLinksResult.getHasMore()) {
sharedLinksResult = client.sharing().listSharedLinksBuilder().withCursor(sharedLinksResult.getCursor()).withDirectOnly(true).start();
} else {
break;
}
}
return result;
}
