I would like to use my webapp to create a file based on user input, and upload it to my dropbox. For some reason there is no tutorial for java on the Dropbox website. I've found two examples:
example1
example2.
The latter is from May 2013, however, both seem to use an old API, which is no longer supported. I'M looking for a working example using dropbox-core-sdk-1.7.jar.
I wrote a simplified uploader based on the examples
You might take a look at the examples folder in the Java SDK to see how the API differs from earlier versions. Also take a look at the documentation. For example, you'll probably want to use uploadFile: http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v1.7.x/com/dropbox/core/DbxClient.html#uploadFile(java.lang.String, com.dropbox.core.DbxWriteMode, long, java.io.InputStream).
(Sorry; I can't quite get that URL to parse properly.)
pom.xml so you can install dependencies via Maven.jackson-databind is properly listed in pom.xml, so it should get installed with the rest of the dependencies. Does it not?First create a DbxClient (shown in the examples), then upload:
/**
* Upload a file to your Dropbox
* @param srcFilename path to the source file to be uploaded
* e.g. /tmp/upload.txt
* @param destFilename path to the destination.
* Must start with '/' and must NOT end with'/'
* e.g. /target_dir/upload.txt
* @param dbxClient a DbxClient created using an auth-token for your Dropbox app
* @throws IOException
*/
public void upload (String srcFilename, String destFilename, DbxClient dbxClient) throws IOException {
File uploadFile = new File (srcFilename);
FileInputStream uploadFIS;
try {
uploadFIS = new FileInputStream(uploadFile);
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
System.err.println("Error in upload(): problem opening " + srcFilename);
return;
}
String targetPath = destFilename;
try {
dbxClient.uploadFile(targetPath, DbxWriteMode.add(), uploadFile.length(), uploadFIS);
}
catch (DbxException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
uploadFIS.close();
System.err.println("Error in upload(): " + e.getMessage());
System.exit(1);
return;
}
}