Remote items and shared folders about onedrive-sdk-ios

[kevklam]

Ah, gotcha. Yes, unfortunately that's less than convenient. I'll forward this feedback to the service team.

[kevklam]

I haven't heard back, but will post here when I do.

[tobihagemann]

ODItemRequestBuilder's itemByPath: method doesn't seem to work on shared folders either. I'm always receiving a response with an empty collection. That's too bad, I really liked this method.

But it works, if I use the id of remoteItem (which doesn't exist in this SDK yet, but I've implemented a category on ODItem as a workaround).

Maaan, I really wanted to avoid implementing an ID-based directory browser. It's so similar to Google Drive and I think it's awful. Dropbox has a really good API purely based on paths, as it should be. I guess I have no choice, or maybe someone here has an idea to use paths to access shared folders?

[kevklam]

Hi @MuscleRumble,
Regarding shared folders - the service API returns all facets (including 'folder' as you discovered) as sub-properties of the 'remoteItem' facet rather than on the item itself.

Can you give an example of a failing query using itemByPath? I did a quick test against a shared folder and it returned the item including remoteItem facet as expected (at least in the JSON response - as you noticed, remoteItem is not exposed as a property on ODItem yet):

[ODClient authenticatedClientWithCompletion:^(ODClient *client, NSError *error){
        [[[[[client drive] items:@"root"] itemByPath:@"sharedfolder"] request] getWithCompletion:^(ODItem *response, NSError *error) {
            NSLog(@"name: %@ id: %@", response.name, response.id);
        }];
    }];

[tobihagemann]

Thanks for looking into it! Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. Now try to get the children of this shared folder by using the children method between the itemByPath: and request methods:

[[[[[[client drive] items:@"root"] itemByPath:@"sharedfolder"] children] request] getWithCompletion:^(...){...}]

That doesn't work for me. I can't "navigate" inside a shared folder by its path.

[kevklam]

As of PR #96 remoteItem should be supported (will need to explicitly point pod at this commit until pod is versioned next)

[tobihagemann]

Alright, thanks! How about "navigating" through a shared folder by its path. Any update on this?

[kevklam]

Unfortunately it looks like there is nothing planned in that regard in the short term, but it's been added to the growing "to-investigate" list of features :)

[tobihagemann]

Okay, I guess I have to work with IDs then. Thanks for the info!