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shared_link_already_exists
Hello,
There is an 409 (Conflict) error i have never encountered since today with a responseText "shared_link_already_exists".
I have a generic function getDropboxFiles() called in several places in my web app that creates a "list_folder" request, mainly when the user logs into the page or if a new file is uploaded.
When the request completes successfully i grab the response and for each file i create a "create_shared_link_with_settings" request and add it to my page , so that the user can open each file seperately.
Today is the first day, after a long time that the app works like a charm with no problems, that i receive the above error message. Can you provide some insight please ? Thank you in advance.
When calling /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings a shared_link_already_exists error is expected if a shared link already exists for that path.
This can occur, for example, if your app already made that API call for that path. Is it possible your app ran that code more than once for a particular path?
If can also occur if the user elsewhere made a link for that file or folder though, even outside of your app, e.g., via the Dropbox web site.
That being the case, you should make sure your app is ready to handle that error. You can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links with direct=true to get the existing link.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
When calling /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings a shared_link_already_exists error is expected if a shared link already exists for that path.
This can occur, for example, if your app already made that API call for that path. Is it possible your app ran that code more than once for a particular path?
If can also occur if the user elsewhere made a link for that file or folder though, even outside of your app, e.g., via the Dropbox web site.
That being the case, you should make sure your app is ready to handle that error. You can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links with direct=true to get the existing link.
Thank you my friend, this helped a lot.
I called the "create_shared_link_with_settings" when the user clicked on file Test1 for example, so it could be downloaded from his dropbox account to my app. If the user then wanted to see file Test2 i did the same, and if he/she wanted to go back to Test1 the shared_link as you said already existed.
I used the "get_temporary_link" to grab the link of a file, that expires in 4 hours, so it seems that it will do the trick.
Thank you again.
Yours response is "409 (Conflict) error", how can i know that authentic error is "shared_link_already_exists"?
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