Error with GetFolder call

[mascon]

When running the following code the SDK chokes on a valid folder ID

            Dim BoxUserClient As New BoxManager(BoxAccount.API_Key, UserAuthToken)

            Try

                Dim BoxFolderList = BoxUserClient.GetItems(Folder.Root)

                For Each FolderReturned In BoxFolderList.Entries

                    Dim Boxfolder = BoxUserClient.GetFolder(FolderReturned.Id)

                    If Boxfolder.OwnedBy.Id = BoxUsers.Entries(CurrentUserIndex).Id Then

                        intOwnerCounter += 1
                        strOwnerBoxIDs += "#" & Boxfolder.Id & "#"

                    Else

                        For Each collaboration In BoxUserClient.GetCollaborations(Boxfolder.Id).Entries

                            If collaboration.AccessibleBy.Id = BoxUsers.Entries(CurrentUserIndex).Id And collaboration.Role = CollaborationRole.CoOwner Then

                                intCoOwnerCounter += 1
                                strCoOwnerBoxIDs += "#" & Boxfolder.Id & "#"

                            End If

                        Next

                    End If

                Next

            Catch ex As BoxException

                Debug.Print(ex.Message)

            End Try

PostMan and the headers and folderID returns successfully.

[jhoerr]

BoxUserClient.GetItems(Folder.Root) returns all the items in the folder (not just the subfolders.) As a result I suspect the call is failing because you then end up executing GetFolder(id) with a file id.

For your purposes, this might work better:

Dim rootFolder = BoxUserClient.GetFolder(Folder.Root) For Each FolderReturned In rootFolder.Folders

[mascon]

Yep that solved the issue. I see the logic now. But I now have the same issue with the collaborations. Sometimes they come back empty too. How can a folder in a users root have no collaborations on it. It should at least have thier own.

I am basicly looking to see if the user is a owner or co-owner of any of the folders in their root tree. So I check all the returned folders for the owners value but for the co-ownership I have to check collaboration right?

And I receive a lot of nothings coming back on the folders. I have added a IsNothing check to stop it crashing.for now.

[mascon]

I did some more digging at the JSON response from box.

It does appear that you can get a collaboration with the AccessibleBy entry as NULL. That is very strange and I will discuss this with BOX to see if these are orphaned entries caused after a user is deleted.

As of now you can for me close this non issue and put it down to a fault between the chair and the desk :-)

[jhoerr]

As of now you can for me close this non issue

Ok, no problem! But real quick:

I receive a lot of nothings coming back on the folders. I have added a IsNothing check to stop it crashing.for now.

I'd like to learn more about what's happening here. Do you have a bit of code that will reproduce this?

[mascon]

Here is a sample response, I have changed the values in places to protect from spammers and hacker :-)

{
    "type": "collaboration",
    "id": "30735166",
    "created_by": {
        "type": "user",
        "id": "183923453",
        "name": "Mr A User",
        "login": "a-user@a-company.com"
    },
    "created_at": "2012-12-21T02:59:39-08:00",
    "modified_at": "2013-01-10T01:30:35-08:00",
    "expires_at": null,
    "status": "accepted",
    "accessible_by": null,
    "role": "editor",
    "acknowledged_at": "2013-01-10T01:30:35-08:00",
    "item": {
        "type": "folder",
        "id": "437870908",
        "sequence_id": "3",
        "etag": "3",
        "name": "ICT Customers"
    }
}

You will clearly see that the "accessible_by" value is NULL. I see no reason at all for this response from BOX and as such I will talk to the team about why they send this information in the JSON response.

Also I have noted that it makes no difference to the return information if I use

For Each collaboration In BoxUserClient.GetCollaborations(FolderReturned.Id).Entries

or

For Each collaboration In BoxUserClient.GetCollaborations(FolderReturned.Id, True).Entries

So maybe we have a bug here or Box is not listening to the request your sending.

[prexer]

Good catch John, We are looking into it.

[jhoerr]

That one was all Simon. :)