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ankit_goyal's avatar
ankit_goyal
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Upload session api creating empty files

import requests import json class DropboxUtil: _token = None _logger = None UPLOAD_SIZE = 149 * 1024 * 1024 def __init__(self, token): DropboxUtil._token = "Bearer ...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    7 years ago

    I see from your code that you're only sending data with the append call. You can actually send data on any/all of the start, append, and finish calls, though it's not required. (Also, for small uploads like this, you don't need to use upload sessions at all, but I presume this is just for the sake of testing the code during development.)

    Anyway, you are sending data with the append call, but you aren't checking if that call is succeeding. You should check the result and add some error handling around the append call. You can check success via the returned status code, and check the response body for more information.

    I suspect the underlying issue is due to your "offset" handling, and is being obscured by the lack of response/error handling for the append call. Specifically, the "offset" you supply should be "The amount of data that has been uploaded so far" (for the upload session overall), not how much you're sending in the current request, as you appear to have in your code with `len(data)`.

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