Dropbox library in LC 9 - centralise the access token?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Oct 11 13:12:44 EDT 2017


Ben Rubinstein wrote:
> The new Dropbox library is (going to be) great. But while it's still only in 
> DP, can I suggest a modest improvement?
> 
> Every single command in the library takes an access token as the first 
> parameter. Given that most uses of the library will involve multiple calls; 
> and the cases where an app is juggling two different dropbox accounts will 
> surely be vanishingly small; wouldn't it be much more elegant if there was a 
> single command "dropboxSetAccessToken" or similar, to normally be used just 
> once in a session - then every other command would drop that parameter?

Does Dropbox limit syncing to a single account?

Will Dropbox always have that limitation?

FWIW Nextcloud allows any number of folders synced with any number of 
servers.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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