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Upload to a specific file id
Hi!
Google Drive has an method that we can create the file ID first, before start upload.
Does Dropbox has somenthing similar?
My point is, to get file metadata, specially file size, af...
julio_diniz_perdigao wrote:...
But I am affraid in step 3, some connections problem and not be able to pass the file ID to my back-end.
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You don't need to pass the id in step 3. Tracing the changes in target directory would give you exact moment of file upload and its id as soon as upload finishes without additional communication between client and server side. 😉
Hope this helps.
Hi Здравко,
yes, but this will take time if target directory has many files. Anyway, a discovered that is possible to get file metada passing the full path instead of the file ID.
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