Does anyone know how to get a list of files for a particular SkyDrive folder? Currently I'm using the following snippet to try and get the files for the root SkyDrive folder:
var client = new LiveConnectClient(e.Session);
client.GetCompleted += (obj, arg) =>
{
...
}
client.GetAsync("me/skydrive");
but all it returns is a Result dictionary that contains a lot of info but no list of filenames!
According to OneDrive core concepts (previously SkyDrive) you have two options to list files, either in the top directory or a specific folder. As you found out, you can list the top files using
liveClient.GetAsync("me/skydrive/files");
and for a specific folder you use folderId + "/files"
, for example
liveClient.GetAsync(folder.Id + "/files");
in the GetCompleted
event you can list all files from the data key
private void onFilesInformationDownloaded(object sender,
LiveOperationCompletedEventArgs e) {
if (e.Result == null) {
// check e.Error for reason why it failed
return;
}
List<object> data = (List<object>)e.Result["data"];
foreach (IDictionary<string, object> content in data) {
string type = (string)content["type"];
if (type == "folder") {
// do something with folders?
}
string filename = (string)content["name"];
string fileId = (string)content["id"];
// use fileId to download a file or list files in a folder
// there's a few more details available in content.Keys
// such as created_time and updated_time for those interested
}
}
After getting desperate and asking the question here
it turns out the to get a list of files from the root skydrive folder you need to use the magic string me/skydrive/files rather than just me or me/skydrive
It is really bad that MS does not document well the live content API.
Where folder.4ab680998d14f4e7.4AB680998D14F4E7!110
is the target folder you want to list.
Java code sample:
public void listRootFolder(String accessToken) {
String folderId = "folder.4ab680998d14f4e7.4AB680998D14F4E7!110/files";
String url = "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/" + folderId + "?access_token=" + accessToken;
HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(url);
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
try {
int returnCode = client.executeMethod(method);
System.out.println("Return code " + returnCode);
System.out.println(method.getResponseBodyAsString());
} catch (HttpException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
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