upload chunks using dropbox api

dropbox, file-upload, python

Solution

I had the same issue, so I asked in dropbox's developer forum They suggest upload_chunk (member function of DropboxClient, not the one in ChunkedUploader) could suit our requirement

Problem

I am using the dropbox API to upload files in chunk. But the following code gets stuck at uploader.upload_chunked(). What might be the reason? Also, is there any way to know what is happening in the background like uploaded these many chunks, still uploading, time taken to receive the uploaded chunks and other information ? Can threads be used to upload these chunks,assuming that the API takes measure to assemble the chunks in correct order,or is it that we have to take care of ordered assembling ? ``` import dropbox size = 941 access_token = 'xxx' client = dropbox.client.DropboxClient(access_token) to_upload_file = open('dummy.txt','r') uploader = client.get_chunked_uploader(to_upload_file,size) print 'uploading ', size while uploader.offset < size : try: upload = uploader.upload_chunked(chunk_size=100) print '100 bytes of chunk sent.' except dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse,e: print 'something went wrong' uploader.finish('/dummy.txt') ``` Edit: `size = 941` -> The size of the file to upload `upload=uploader.upload_chunked(chunk_size=100)` -> chunk_size changed from default to 100 bytes `print'100 bytes of chunk sent'` -> print statement included

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