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Why? Swift is pretty easy to use from Objective-C, especially if you take care to make your API Obj-C friendly (which I would assume they did).
Dropbox API v2 launches
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#42A simple POST based API? What is this blasphemy?
As long as everything is well documented, I don't see the problem. With most languages, you'll probably want to use an SDK anyway. What's the problem with a POST based API?
pixie_ was being sarcastic - alluding to how "RESTful" APIs with the wide array of verbs is en-vogue in some circles.
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#43No love after begging for an administration API for 2+ years.
At this point they should start putting some spin on it.
"Help your company employ more people. Dropbox for Business's lack of administration tools will grow your headcount. When you see your admins waiting for a list of users to load, or trying to write their own tools based on scraping the website, feel good about how you're fighting unemployment."
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#44Can I programmatically edit .xls files over the API? That would be great.
It's a storage api not a spreadsheet api. Dropbox itself can't do that, but it can get you the data and you can use an xls library or program to edit them.
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#45Hey if anyone from Dropbox is monitoring these comments: nice work, but there's something missing that I've been waiting for: API access to comments.
I'd love to recommend using the new Dropbox comments feature but I can't until I know there is a way of getting that data out after putting it in. I'm not entering metadata into a system that doesn't have fully programmable export. Been burned too many times.
Pretty please?
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#46No love after begging for an administration API for 2+ years. At this point they should start putting some spin on it. "Help your company employ more people. Dropbox for Business's lack of administration tools will grow your headcount. When you see your admins waiting for a list of users to load, or trying to write their own tools based on scraping the website, feel good about how you're fighting unemployment."
Our goal is definitely to give administrators the control they need through the API, but I'm very willing to believe there are things we're missing. :-) Is there something specific that's not already part of our Dropbox Business API? (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http#teams)
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
As systems grow you always end up wanting to parameterize GET apis with things that you can't reasonably continue to stuff into headers, matrix params, and a wonky URL (in my experience).
GET requests can have a body. Some clients fail at handling this and you have to use method overrides, though.
GET requests can have a body but by spec they aren't supposed to parse it with the request
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rest-discuss/conversatio...
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#48Hey if anyone from Dropbox is monitoring these comments: nice work, but there's something missing that I've been waiting for: API access to comments. I'd love to recommend using the new Dropbox comments feature but I can't until I know there is a way of getting that data out after putting it in. I'm not entering metadata into a system that doesn't have fully programmable export. Been burned too many times. Pretty ple…
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely already being tracked as a feature request, but I don't have anything to share about if/when we'll add comments support to the API.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, they absolutely should open source their backend systems. Is the value of Dropbox really in their source code? I doubt it. They want my files, all of them, but they won't tell me what they're doing with the files or how their code works? Everything about this should be open source, and I won't ever use it until it is. Also they should make a lot more effort towards promising privacy and security. As it stands ri…
You aren't obligated to be a customer of Dropbox. There are plenty of other services, either self-run or not, that caters to people that value baseless paranoia over functionality and usability.
Baseless paranoia?
Have you read the news this year? There's never been a worse time to be unaware and unclear of what software installed on your device does. Companies are so bad at security they lose people's private information by the million, Dropbox themselves didn't even validate passwords for a four hour window once upon a time.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Initially I was surprised Swift, a new language, came before JavaScript. But after thinking about it you have to have it for iOS integration. It's too bad their JavaScript SDK isn't ready yet but making HTTP calls from JavaScript is dead simple so that's not the worst thing. Overall looks like a good set of priorities for what SDKs got done first.
Well, if JavaScript were meant to be used as an actual programming language, then it would make sense to develop an SDK for it. I'm only half joking there :) In all seriousness, though, it did make my brain tilt about 15 degrees to see the words "JavaScript" and "SDK" next to each other like that.
In all seriousness, though, it did make my brain tilt about 15 degrees to see the words "JavaScript" and "SDK" next to each other like that.
AWS has two JavaScript SDKs.