Class Dropbox

Dropbox objects can be used to work with files in a Dropbox account. The read and write methods are simple wrappers for uploading and reading content of files on Dropbox.

For advanced uses, the rpcRequest, contentUploadRequest and contentDownloadRequest methods enable direct use of any Dropbox API 2.0 endpoints. These methods are an advanced feature which return raw results from the Dropbox API and may require advanced understanding of the API to process the results. They do enable full access to the API, however, which enabled things like querying files, listing folder contents, uploading to Paper, etc. For details on availalbe methods, see Dropbox API documentation. In the case of all of these methods Drafts takes care of the OAuth request signing and authentication process when necessary.

Example

// create Dropbox object
let db = Dropbox.create();

// setup variables
let path = "/test/file.txt";
let content = "text to place in file";

// write to file on Dropbox
let success = db.write(path, content, "add", true);

if (success) { // write worked!
  var dbContent = db.read(path);
  if (dbContent) { // read worked!
    if (dbContent == content) {
     alert("File contents match!");
    }
    else {
      console.log("File did not match");
      context.fail();
    }
  }
  else { // read failed, log error
    console.log(db.lastError);
    context.fail();
  }
}
else { // write failed, log error
  console.log(db.lastError);
  context.fail();
}

Hierarchy

  • Dropbox

Constructors

constructor

Properties

lastError

Methods

contentDownloadRequest contentUploadRequest read rpcRequest write create

Constructors

constructor

  • Create new instance.

    Parameters

    • Optional identifier: string

    Returns Dropbox

Properties

lastError

lastError: string

If a function fails, this property will contain the last error as a string message, otherwise it will be undefined.

Methods

contentDownloadRequest

  • Execute a request against the Dropbox API for an endpoint of Content Download type. For successful requests, the HTTPResponse object will contain an raw data in the responseData property and, if the data can be converted to a string value, the text version in the responseText property. The HTTPResponse otherData property will contain a Javascript object decoded from the JSON returned in the Dropbox-API-Result header. Refer to Dropbox's API documentation for details about the expected parameters and responses. Drafts will handle wrapping the request in the appropriate OAuth authentication flow.

    Parameters

    Returns HTTPResponse

contentUploadRequest

  • Execute a request against the Dropbox API for an endpoint of Content Upload type. For successful requests, the HTTPResponse object will contain an object or array or objects decoded from the JSON returned by Dropbox as appropriate to the request made. Refer to Dropbox's API documentation for details about the expected parameters and responses. Drafts will handle wrapping the request in the appropriate OAuth authentication flow.

    Parameters

    Returns HTTPResponse

read

  • Reads the contents of the file at the with the file name, in the parent folder, as a string. Returns undefined value if the file does not exist or could not be read.

    Parameters

    • path: string

      Path related to root of Dropbox folder.

    Returns string

rpcRequest

  • Execute a request against the Dropbox API for an endpoint of RPC type. For successful requests, the HTTPResponse object will contain an object or array or objects decoded from the JSON returned by Dropbox as appropriate to the request made. Refer to Dropbox's API documentation for details about the expected parameters and responses. Drafts will handle wrapping the request in the appropriate OAuth authentication flow.

    Parameters

    Returns HTTPResponse

write

  • Write the contents of the file at the path. Returns true if successful, false if the file could not be written successfully. This will override existing files!

    Parameters

    • path: string

      Path related to root of Dropbox folder.

    • content: string

      Text to write to file.

    • mode: dropboxMode

      Either "add" or "overwrite" to determine if the write method should overwrite an existing file at the path if it exists.

    • autorename: boolean

    Returns boolean

Static create

  • Creates a new Dropbox object.

    Parameters

    • Optional identifier: string

      used to identify a Dropbox account. Typically this can be omitted if you only work with one Dropbox account in Drafts.

    Returns Dropbox

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