Endpoint for Range request.

[isabsent]

To get some bytes from file on Dropbox API V1 (Range Request or a partial content request) I use endpoint

String rangeRequestEndpoint  = "https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/dropbox";

with the code below:

String downloadUrl = rangeRequestEndpoint + Uri.encode(metadata.getPathLower());
URL url = new URL(downloadUrl); 
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
con.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes=" + position + "-" + (position + length - 1));
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
InputStream is = con.getInputStream();  

Which endpoint should I use for this purpose in Dropbox API V2? It seems

https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download

does not support Range Request.

[greg-db]

The API v2 content-download endpoints, such as /2/files/download, do support Range Requests.

To use the Dropbox API v2 Java SDK to download portions of a file, you should use DbxUserFilesRequests.downloadBuilder to get a DownloadBuilder where you can use the DbxDownloadStyleBuilder.range methods to specify a range.

[isabsent]

Thanks! It works with direct Range Request like:

            URL url = new URL("https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download"); 
            HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            con.setRequestMethod("GET");
            con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
            con.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes=" + position + "-" + (position + length - 1));
            con.setRequestProperty("Dropbox-API-Arg", "{\"path\": \"" + fileMetadata.getPathLower()  + "\"}");
            int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
            InputStream is = con.getInputStream();

in V2 API. But how to get DbxUserFilesRequest? It needs DbxRawClientV2 in the constructor. How to get it? Do you mean this way?

InputStream is = dbxClientV2.files().downloadBuilder(fileMetadata.getPathLower())
        .range(position, length).start().getInputStream();

[greg-db]

@isabsent Yes, that looks right. Let us know if you run in to any issues.