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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Thanks for all the suggested improvements to my patch, I've applied them all now |
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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.
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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.