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Explain more clearly how to use rest/db/file #817
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This adds an example curl call and explains the parameters more clearly. It's not immediately obvious how to use this endpoint from the existing docs. Hopefully this will help others figure it out. Reading the forums I don't think I was the only person confused by this page.
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Co-authored-by: tomasz1986 <twilczynski@naver.com>
Co-authored-by: tomasz1986 <twilczynski@naver.com>
Co-authored-by: tomasz1986 <twilczynski@naver.com>
Co-authored-by: tomasz1986 <twilczynski@naver.com>
Co-authored-by: tomasz1986 <twilczynski@naver.com>
Thanks for all the suggested improvements to my patch, I've applied them all now |
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I took the liberty to fix some formatting. Could you please fix the factual discrepancies while you're touching this part?
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curl --silent --get --header "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_TOKEN" "http://localhost:8384/rest/db/file?folder=YOUR_FOLDER_ID" --data-urlencode "file=path/to/file.pdf" |
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There are already numerous examples involving curl
in the docs. I'd find it convenient to adopt the same CLI options used there, e.g. -H
instead of --header
and omit the --get
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"local": { /* a file entry */ } | |||
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A file entry looks like this:: | |||
``local`` and ``global`` refer to the current file on the local device and the | |||
globally newest file, respectively. A file entry looks like this: |
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There is a factual error here. The mtime
attribute is not part of the respective file entry, but top-level next to availability
. When that is fixed, the outer object wrapping can go away in this code sample.
This adds an example curl call and explains the parameters more clearly.
It's not immediately obvious how to use this endpoint from the existing docs. Hopefully this will help others figure it out. Reading the forums I don't think I was the only person confused by this page.