To use the Dropbox connector, add the <dropbox.init> element in your configuration before carrying out any other dropbox operations. Dropbox supports OAuth 2.0 for authenticating the API calls.

OAuth 2.0 is a relatively simple protocol. To begin, OAuth 2.0 credentials should be obtained. Then the client application requests an access token from the Authorization Server, extracts a token from the response, and sends the token. See "Authorization" section in https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation for further reference on obtaining the access token.

init

<dropbox.init>
	<apiUrl>{$ctx:apiUrl}</apiUrl>
	<apiVersion>{$url:apiVersion}</apiVersion>
    <accessToken>{$ctx:accessToken}</accessToken>
    <path>{$ctx:path}</path>
	<blocking>{$ctx:blocking}</blocking>
</dropbox.init>

Properties

apiUrl: Indicates the URL of the Dropbox API(Eg: https://api.dropboxapi.com or https://content.dropboxapi.com).
apiVersion: Version of the Dropbox API.
accessToken: The access token allows making requests to the API on behalf of the user.
path: The path to the folder or file.
blocking: Set to true to perform the blocking invocations to Dropbox.

Additional information

Ensure that the following Axis2 configurations are added and enabled.

Required message formatters

messageFormatters

<messageFormatter contentType="application/octet-stream" class="org.wso2.carbon.relay.ExpandingMessageFormatter"/>

Required message builders

messageBuilders

 <messageBuilder contentType="application/octet-stream" class="org.wso2.carbon.relay.BinaryRelayBuilder"/>

Now that you have connected to Dropbox, use the information in the following topics to perform various operations with the connector.

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