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Legrend_Sargentpc
2 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Zapier - 409 error path/not found
Hello everyone!
I'm trying to get the meta data for a file so I can access the "shared_folder_id" and then add a member (or group if possible) to that folder. It's on a team folder.
I'm using...
- 2 months ago
It looks like you meant to call /2/files/get_metadata, but based on the error message in the response body you actually called /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata (which takes different parameters, and so the call failed). Make sure you've configured that to call /2/files/get_metadata if that's what you intended.
Legrend_Sargentpc
Explorer | Level 3
Hi Des!
Thanks for the help. My goal is to add a member to a team folder found in step 1. The error message I get on step 4 is this: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable
I kept having to refresh my access token and have since switched over to the new Zapier API Dropbox (Beta) which refreshes tokens automatically.
I switched the logic flow to the below but am stuck on step 4, but I think step 3 might be wrong too. Any help is appreciated again. Thank you!
- Find folder - to search for a specific folder by name
- API run of get_current_account - in order to find my companies dropbox base folder.
- API call of get_metadata - with the Dropbox-API-Path-Root, and the path from step 1 as a query argument. Code for this below:
Header added: Dropbox-API-Path-Root:
{".tag": "root", "root": "<response_data_root_info_root_namespace_id from step 2>"}
{
"include_deleted": false,
"include_has_explicit_shared_members": false,
"include_media_info": false,
"path": "<path ID from step 1>"
}
- API call of add_folder_member - to add a specific member to the folder from step 1. This uses the "parent shared folder ID" I from 3 to add the member to the folder in step 1, but I think this is wrong as it should just be "shared folder ID". Code data below:
{
"members": [
{
"access_level": "editor",
"member": {
".tag": "dropbox_id",
"dropbox_id": "dbmid:<memberID pulled from another API call>"
}
}
],
"quiet": false,
"shared_folder_id": "response__data__sharing_info__parent_shared_folder_id from step 3"
}
Greg-DB
2 months agoDropbox Staff
The error "argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable" is not actually an error from the Dropbox API itself, so we can't offer too much help with that in particular. That said, the error indicates that a particular object is unexpectedly None and so cannot be iterated over; you'd need to determine what object in your environment that is and why it is None.
As for the Dropbox side of this, "parent shared folder ID" and "shared folder ID" both refer to the same kind of identifier. The term "parent shared folder ID" is used for something contained in a shared folder (e.g., since a file cannot itself be a shared folder but can be in a shared folder), and the term "shared folder ID" would be used for a shared folder itself. (Likewise, a "team folder ID" is also just a type of "shared folder ID".)
Anyway, it's worth mentioning that it's ambiguous what exactly you're doing in step one, but you may be able to simplify this process somewhat. If step one gives yous the metadata for the shared (or team) folder itself, you could get the shared folder ID from there directly, for use with /2/sharing/add_folder_member.
- Legrend_Sargentpc2 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Hi Greg,
That's for clearing up the shared_id vs parent_shared_ID.
In step 1, I'm getting a specific file location. It's a dropbox/zapier event that returns the following:
- ID: (ex. id:somerandomechars23432)
- Path: (ex. /baseroot/subfolder1/subfolder2
- ShareLink: (http: link we use to share for our clients)
- is deleted: t/f
- is shared: t/f
- no access: t/f
- is dir: t/f
So, I have found a folder "ID", but not the "shared_folder_id" which seems necessary for the add_folder_member api call. I'm then trying to pull the meta data from that "ID", so I can get the shared_folder_Id to be used in add_folder_member.
I think my issue is showing that the get_meta_data is returning a error 400 even though Zapier is saying it went through correctly. (not sure though). Pictures below to show what I put it, and what came out. (Not sure why they are posted backwards, but I couldn't change it.)
Thanks again for all the help!- Greg-DB2 months agoDropbox Staff
It looks like you meant to call /2/files/get_metadata, but based on the error message in the response body you actually called /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata (which takes different parameters, and so the call failed). Make sure you've configured that to call /2/files/get_metadata if that's what you intended.
- Legrend_Sargentpc2 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Hi Greg,
That helped fix that error. I can't believe I missed that! I'm still getting the none type issue on the next step, but I have a feeling it's time to ask Zapier what's going on, because passing a hardcoded variable is still showing the same thing.
Thanks so much for your help!
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