Need crash course in Dropbox library

[pink]

I'm getting a little closer...

1. how do I break fileContents into smaller pieces?
2. how do I properly calculate the pOffset value?


Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote
> Hey pink
> Yes, you are just going to put 150MB at a time into the pData parameter
> and
> ship it.
> I have not uploaded any binary files, just encoded text files, so you may
> have to fiddle with encoding to make sure you don't get into any trouble.
> You should be able to open/read the files using
> put url "binfile:/"&somefilename into fileContents
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:42 AM pink via use-livecode <

> use-livecode at .runrev

>> wrote:
> 
>> the phxDropbox library is for v1 of the Dropbox API, which has been
>> deprecated
>>
>> what I need is to get a handle of the upload session commands, how do I
>> properly break the file data into seperate sessions, and how do i
>> determine
>> the offset value
>>
>>
>> Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote
>> > Don't know if this works anymore but before i used this:
>> >
>> >
>> > *on*openstack
>> >
>> > *if* thereisnotastack"phxDropboxLib"*then*
>> >
>> > *put*GetPathToFile("phxDropboxLib.livecode") intophxLib
>> >
>> > *start*usingstackphxLib
>> >
>> > *else* *if* "phxDropboxLib"isnotamongthelinesofthestacksinuse*then*
>> >
>> > *start*usingstack"phxDropboxLib"
>> >
>> > *end* *if*
>> >
>> > *--*
>> >
>> > *if* "phxDropboxLib"isnotamongthelinesofthestacksinuse*then*
>> >
>> > *answer*error"Unable to load phxDropboxLib"
>> >
>> > *quit*
>> >
>> > *end* *if*
>> >
>> > *constant*myAppKey = "appappappapp"
>> >
>> > *constant*myAppSec = "secsecsec"
>> >
>> > *constant*myTokKey = "toktoktoktok"
>> >
>> > *constant*myTokSec = "sectoksectok"
>> >
>> > *--*
>> >
>> > *if* notphx_DropboxAvailable() *then*
>> >
>> > *answer*"Dropbox HTTPS connection NOT available"
>> >
>> > *end* *if*
>> >
>> > *get*phx_DropboxInitLib(myAppKey, myAppSec, myTokKey, myTokSec)
>> >
>> > end openCard
>> >
>> > ----reading----
>> >
>> > *put*phx_DropboxReadFile("sandbox", ("/folder/some.txt"))
>> > intoField"Name1"ofcard1
>> >
>> > ----writing------
>> >
>> > *put*phx_DropboxWriteFile("sandbox", ("/folder/some.txt"), "text/html",
>> > true, myName) intofield"udontcme"ofcard1
>> >
>> > ------close-----------
>> >
>> > *on*closeStack
>> >
>> > *set*theuTokenKey ofthisstacktoempty
>> >
>> > *set*theuTokenSec ofthisstacktoempty
>> >
>> > *stop*usingstack"phxDropboxLib"
>> >
>> > *close*stack"phxDropboxLib"
>> >
>> > *pass*closeStack
>> >
>> > *end*closeStack
>> >
>> > Op 16-2-2019 om 00:23 schreef pink via use-livecode:
>> >> under the documentation for dropboxUpload,  it states it shouldn't be
>> >> used
>> >> for files larger than 150MB, the video files will all be around 800MB
>> >>
>> >> I've been looking through the stack, but cannot find the answers I am
>> >> looking for. SO I am still not clear how I should get my file into
>> pData
>> >>
>> >> and pData is just a chunk of the data? How do I make that chunk out of
>> >> the
>> >> whole and where do I get pOffset from?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote
>> >>> Hey, pink, thanks for the clarification.
>> >>> First of all, is there a reason why you are doing it this way instead
>> of
>> >>> using dropboxUpload?  If you use dropboxUpload you can do it all in
>> one
>> >>> shot.
>> >>> Gerard's stack explains the process and how to use the various
>> commands
>> >>> Doing it the way you are doing it, you would start with sessionStart
>> and
>> >>> then you would repeatedly call sessionAppend
>> >>> pOffset is the length of what you have already sent because there are
>> no
>> >>> guarantees that dropbox will get your file stream in order, so if it
>> >>> gets
>> >>> them out of order and pData isn't the same length for each call to
>> >>> append,
>> >>> the only way dropbox knows where to put the data it just received is
>> if
>> >>> you
>> >>> tell it where to put it.
>> >>> pData should be at most 150mb per call.
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