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Hi, I’m a little stuck on this. We use box for our storage for clients (organisations) and with each client, we open a new folder. The functionality I’m looking for is for an internal admin webapp. When a user logs in to the admin app, I want to retrieve a service account token so then when they create an organisation, it triggers a new folder created in the enterprise account. All the client_ids etc are in the .env and in the dev console, the custom app is fine. Here is a copy of my server.js: const BoxSDK = require('box-node-sdk'); // Box configuration app.get('/api/box-access-token', cors(corsOptions), async (req, res) => { const sdkConfig = { boxAppSettings: { clientID: process.env.BOX_CLIENT_ID, clientSecret: process.env.BOX_CLIENT_SECRET, }, enterpriseID: process.env.ENTERPRISE_ID, } const sdk = BoxSDK.getPreconfiguredInstance(sdkConfig) const client = sdk.getAnonymousClient()

Hello , do we have a sample to get the refresh token in Python Gen SDK ? and those any rule to using refresh token ? like i am a Dev account can we using the refresh token ? and where can get the authorization code ? if Enterprise account do we need refresh token ? Many thanks !

Hi @rbarbosa we have created app with CCG and were trying to get access token with client credentials (client id,secret ,box service id ,box sevice type)in POSTMAN. WE got following error : "error":“unauthorized_client”,“error_description”:“The grant type is unauthorized for this client_id”} " And also “Authrozition” tab is also not active (no clickable).it is my doubt that we logging to site with diff user then Admin user.If that is the case , how can we know the admin user name

We’ve integrated Box with Apache NiFi, there is a processor which puts files to Box folders. In case the folder does not exist, it is created by NiFi. Usually there are several nodes in NiFi cluster so two or more NiFi instances try to create the same folder in Box parallel. Normally Box returns 409 (conflict) in case the folder is being created while another request arrives for the creation of the same folder, the NiFi processor handles this case. Although we experienced intermittent failures during our system tests when subfolders are created in Box (e.g. folder1/folder2/folder3) . Sometimes the folder is created twice with the same name, e.g. we have two “folder1” which is considered illegal since folder names are unique in Box. It seems Box does not throw an error in some c

I’m trying to download the files of the publicly shared KUL fall simulation dataset (Box), as I access the server I want to run my AI training on via ssh and of course don’t have a browser there. Also I’d like to avoid copying 20GB of videos via ssh or something. My app successfully authenticates and obtains the folder ID from the shared link using client.get_shared_item(shared_link), it returns “44028703597” as the folder ID. Then I call folder_items = client.folder(folder_id).get_items(), no problems here. Now when I try to iterate over that, I get an error message that the folder with the ID “d_44028703597” can’t be found, which is weird because in the same message I can see that the SDK calls GET https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/44028703597/items?offset=0, without the d_ prefix. Any idea

Hi, I’m new using Box.com’s Java SDK. The application I’m working is trying to use Java to connect to Box.com in order to download a file. The application is a Spring Boot project, version 2.5.9, compiled using Java 8. The code below “fails” in method: BoxDeveloperEditionAPIConnection.getAppEnterpriseConnection(boxConfig, tokenCache). The method does not throw an error and never comes back from the call. The thread this process is in Stops. try { Reader reader = new FileReader("D:/Box/xxxxxxx_config.json"); BoxConfig boxConfig = BoxConfig.readFrom(reader); IAccessTokenCache tokenCache = new InMemoryLRUAccessTokenCache(100); BoxDeveloperEditionAPIConnection api = BoxDeveloperEditionAPIConnection.getAppEnterpriseConnection(boxConfig, tokenCache); BoxFile file = new BoxFile(a

error: package org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel does not exist import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*; i meet above error when i coding , i has add the poi dependencies in build.gradle as below implementation “org.apache.poi:poi:3.17” i am using IntelliJ IDEA , anyone can help to this ? thanks!

{‘error’: ‘invalid_grant’, ‘error_description’: ‘Grant credentials are invalid’} getting error while using ccgAuth() with cient id, client secret and user. please help…

Hi folks, I often use the Box Postman Collection to interact directly with the Box API, so I can troubleshoot my code, or just to see what an actual response looks like. The existing collection only automates the access token refresh for OAuth 2.0, and it is fairly complex to change it to support CCG or JWT, even though a lot of times I wish I had that possibility, so I could work directly with the service accounts. Having said that I wanted to gauge the community interest in supporting access token refresh for CCG and JWT, or anything in between: Developer Token (non refreshable) OAuth 2.0

Hello everyone, I’m facing an issue with the speed of the responses I’m receiving from the API. I’m making 100 parallel calls from one user and repeating this process 10 times, resulting in less than 1000 calls per minute. Here’s the code snippet that I’m using: _boxClientCredentialsGrant = new BoxCCGAuth(boxConfig); _userclient = _boxClientCredentialsGrant.UserClient(_testUserId); // This part in paralel 100 times // iterate 10 times var result = await _userclient.UsersManager.GetCurrentUserInformationAsync();

Hi Team, We are constantly getting below error when our automated jenkins jobs trying to upload files on box folder: access_token = response.json()[‘access_token’] KeyError: ‘access_token’ The same jobs are working fine on staging server with same configurations means files are being uploaded to box folders using the same app config on our staging server. The issue we are facing is in production jenkins jobs, it was working fine till 24th dec but now continue to fails generating access token. We are currently using JWT without SDK approach. Looking forward for some help. Thanks, Shailendra J

Hello, I am experiencing an issue with the NodeSDK, whenever I apply any data shape, to boxClient.folders.addMetadata() it throws a 400 with “message”: “Request contains invalid parameters.”, If I apply a empty object {}, it works without issue. (So I know that i am able to connect, and have permissions ect) The shape of the metadata template is: The relevant code: const metadataValues = { ENTITY_ID: “1234”, is_Active: “1”, is_Found: “1”, }; let response_metadata_applied = await this.boxClient.folders.addMetadata(folder_id, “enterprise_534608”, “ciptemplate”, metadataValues); It throws a 400, with that error. If I apply let response_metadata_applied = await this.boxClient.folders.addMetadata(folder_id, “enterpris

Hoping someone can help and point me in the right direction Using the .Net SDK using the Access and Refresh Token authentication and when the token expires (via the HttpRequestHandler 401 status code) and the SDK calls the RetryExpiredTokenRequest I get a Bad Request error. If I refresh the tokens outside of the SDK, the code authenticates correctly with no errors. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks

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Hi, @ajankowski @lsocha, @rbarbosa I use a client credentials grant for accessing my enterprise account. I successfully called the enterprise user API using the boxsdk for python. But now when I try to call any box API using the client I get the following error. DEBUG 2023-11-24 04:13:25,474 oauth2 Refreshing tokens. (oauth2.py:214) INFO 2023-11-24 04:13:52,500 default_network e[36mPOST https://api.box.com/oauth2/token {'data': {'box_subject_id': '30187662834', 'box_subject_type': 'user', 'client_id': '---9or2', 'client_secret': '---nKID', 'grant_type': 'client_credentials'}, 'headers': {'User-Agent': 'box-python-sdk-3.9.2', 'X-Box-UA': 'agent=box-python-sdk/3.9.2; env=python/3.10.12', 'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-ur

Hello, I have a question about the box API when OAuth 2.0 is used. My end goal is to upload a file to box using a bot. The first part of my test is to set up the API and do this manually for now. With this goal in mind, I created a personal box account (my organization suggested doing this) to do testing. Then, I created an application and followed the instructions from box to authenticate using Python and SDK. The problem that I’m facing is that I cannot view my root folder. I get a message saying <Box Folder - 0 (All Files)>. I can create folders, search for files, and upload file to box root folder. I read some of the posts on the forum and I already discarded the possibility that I am using a service account because when I look at my client.user() i see my user ID and email. Also, I’m using a developer token and to my understanding, a developer token is associated with the user who’s logged into the developer console. The code that I’m

Hi, When I use the metadata-query command and try to add more options to query more data about the file creation date using the Fields option or the Extra-Fields option, no results show up, only file name and file id Here is the command box metadata-query enterprise_******.department 1736501103 --fields=created_at ----- File 1342427526557 ----- Type: file ID: ‘1342427526557’ Also need to know the list of options that I can use under Fields and Extra-Fields as the Box CLI is not showing any help or examples for it. Thanks

Hi, I have created a folder inside my enterprise account and shared the content with an individual user outside my organisation. The user created a free account to access the content, and he trying to automate that content download using SDK. While trying to create an app with limited access to download the content the user can’t generate “Primary Access Token” Is the free account have any limitations to create an app to download contents?. Thanks, Aneesh

Hi, We’ve been using the Python SDK to run a nightly job that gives us a list of all the files (and some metadata) in our account. That job historically took about 30 minutes to complete, recursively going through all the directories, etc. As of a few days ago (11/5), though, it suddenly doubled in length, even though the number of files/folders in our account hadn’t changed. So two questions: Has anyone else noticed anything similar over the last few days? Is there a better/different way to get to that data? Our current function looks something like this: def get_recursive_files(settings, client, folder_id, path_prefix=None): file_list = [] folder = client.folder(folder_id).get() for item in folder.get_items(): if item.type == 'folder': file_list += get_recursive_files(settings, client, item.id, path_prefix) else: file = item.get(fields=['id'

We plan to develop a Box app using .Net. But apparently, .Net seems to be not a popular option based on the traffic here. Are there any reasons for that?

Do I need paid account to utilize the file upload feature using .NET SDK? Also where to find authorization code for my app in the interface? Please let me know and I am stuck on this

I have a Box enterprise account, and I want to create a client object that can perform various operations on behalf of enterprise users. My goal is to access and manage files and folders. To achieve this, I’ve explored two authentication methods: developer tokens and JWT authentication. Is it true that developer tokens should not be used for production? If yes then I am left with JWT Authentication. JWT Authentication: I’ve looked into JWT authentication, which appears to be suitable for server-to-server communication. However, I’m unsure about how to set up the following JWT authentication parameters: jwt_key_id rsa_private_key_file_sys_path rsa_private_key_passphrase Additionally, I would like to know how to create a client object using JWT authentication to access enterprise users’ data and perform operations as the Service Account or individual App Users.