A Dropbox v2 client library written in Objective-C
TJDropbox is a Dropbox v2 client library written in Objective-C. When Dropbox originally announced their v2 API they included only a Swift client library, and at the time I wrote TJDropbox as an Objective-C alternative to it to migrate my app Close-up to Dropbox v2. Since then, Dropbox has released an Objective-C v2 SDK. If you’re migrating away from Dropbox’s v1 SDK to v2 and are considering alternatives to Dropbox’s first party solution, TJDropbox is a pretty well featured replacement with no dependencies and very few source files.
You can use TJDropbox by adding all the source files from the TJDropbox/ directory to your project, or with CocoaPods.
Authentication with TJDropbox is pretty flexible. The simplest way to do it would be to use the provided TJDropboxAuthenticator
class.
- (void)authenticate
{
[TJDropboxAuthenticator authenticateWithClientIdentifier:/*Dropbox client identifier*/
options:/*Options for auth*/
completion:^(TJDropboxCredential *credential) {
if (credential) {
// Auth succeeded, store credential.
} else {
// Auth did not succeed.
}
}];
}
Be sure to call +tryHandleAuthenticationCallbackWithURL:
from your app delegate's -application:openURL:options:
method for this to work. TJDropboxAuthenticator
attempts auth using the following methods in order of preference.
bypassNativeAuth
is YES
in options
)ASWebAuthenticationSession
in iOS 12+.SFAuthenticationSession
in iOS 11+.That being said, you can also authenticate manually using the utility methods TJDropbox provides. Advanced auth is detailed here.
TJDropbox doesn't store the credentials, that's up to you.
Once authenticated, TJDropbox is capable of doing the following things
The methods for these are all listed in TJDropbox.h.
Though TJDropbox only supports a few types of requests for now, internally it has formatters for any Dropbox API request you'd like and handlers for parsing results. Most notably:
+apiRequestWithPath:accessToken:parameters:
formats RPC requests to the api.dropboxapi.com host.+performAPIRequest:withCompletion:
can be used to execute an RPC request.+contentRequestWithPath:accessToken:parameters:
formats content requests to the content.dropboxapi.com host.+resultDataForContentRequestResponse:
can be used to extract the result API information from a content request.+processResultJSONData:response:error:parsedResult:
can be used to process the results from either an RPC or content request.All the externally exposed methods in TJDropbox are built on top of these utilities, and they can be used to add new functionality to TJDropbox. Requests and pull requests are very welcome!
TJDropboxAuthenticationViewController
) and storing of tokens is up to you. I don't want to tell you how to manage that stuff, your app may have its own special needs.NSURLQueryItem
is the only thing I think is blocking that.