login

This sets up the initial OAuth handshake and returns the login URL. This URL has to be clicked by the user and the user then has to accept the application in dropbox.

Dropbox then redirects back to the callback URL defined with "$self->callback_url". If the user already accepted the application the redirect may happen without the user actually clicking anywhere.

auth

The auth method changes the initial request token into access token that we need for subsequent access to the API. This method only has to be called once after login.

account_info

account_info polls the users info from dropbox.

list

lists all files in the path defined:

    $data = $box->list();           # top-level
    $data = $box->list( "/Photos" ); # folder

The data returned is a ref to a hash containing various fields returned by Dropbox, including a "hash" value, which can be used later to check if Dropbox data beneath a specified folder has changed since the last call.

For this, "list()" accepts an optional 'hash' argument:

    $data = $box->list({ hash => "ce9ccbfb8f255f234c93adcfef33b5a6" },
                       "/Photos");

This will either return

    { http_response_code => 304 }

in which case nothing has changed since the last call, or

    { http_response_code => 200,
      # ... various other fields
    }

if there were modifications.

copy

copies a folder
copy($from, $to)

move

move a folder
move($from, $to)

mkdir

creates a folder
mkdir($path)

delete

delete a folder
delete($path)

view

creates a cookie protected link for the user to look at.
view($path)

metadata

creates a cookie protected link for the user to look at.
metadata($path)

putfile

uploads a file to dropbox

getfile

get a file from dropbox

debug

Set this to a non-false value in order to print some debugging information to STDOUT.
debug(1)

_talk

_talk handles the access to the restricted resources. You should normally not need to access this directly.

nonce

Generate a different nonce for every request.