To build from Eclipse, simply import the project into your workspace as an existing project.

The easiest way of building with Ant is by running ant from the BoxJavaLibraryV2 directory. This will output a JAR to dist/debug/BoxJavaLibraryV2.jar. You can see a full list of additional targets by running ant -p.

$ ant -p

Main targets:

clean    Removes any built files.
debug    Performs a debug build.
release  Performs a release build.
test     Performs a debug build and then runs tests.
Default target: debug

There is also experimental support for Gradle, allowing you to use the SDK with Android Studio. You must have Gradle 1.6 installed.

Running gradle build will build the SDK and run its tests. A JAR will be placed in build/libs/BoxJavaLibraryV2-1.0.jar. Alternatively, you can run gradle install which will install the SDK to you local Maven repository. It can then be referenced from other projects with the dependency string com.box.boxjavalibv2:BoxJavaLibraryV2:1.0.

Note for Android users: You might get a warning that says "WARNING: Dependency commons-logging :commons-logging:1.1.1 is ignored for the default configuration as it may be conflicting with the internal version provided by Android." This is expected and shouldn't affect your build.

You can find a hello world example here. For migration to V3 from earlier version, please see "Migration to V3" section at the end of this README

Authenticate the client with OAuth. For more details about the authentication flow(UI), please see the Authentication section.

boxClient.authenticate(boxOAuthToken);

Our sdk auto refreshes OAuth access token when it expires. You will want to listen to the refresh events and update your stored token after refreshing.

boxClient.addOAuthRefreshListener(new OAuthRefreshListener() {
        @Override
        public void onRefresh(IAuthData newAuthData) {
            // TODO: save the auth data.
        }
});

After you exit the app and return back, you can use the stored oauth data to authenticate:

boxClient.authenticate(loadStoredAuthData);

For more details please see the hello world example.

BoxFile boxFile = boxClient.getFilesManager().getFile(fileId, null);

Get default file info plus its description and SHA1.

BoxDefaultRequestObject requestObj = new BoxDefaultRequestObject();
requestObj.getRequestExtras().addField(BoxFile.FIELD_SHA1);
requestObj.getRequestExtras().addField(BoxFile.FIELD_DESCRIPTION);
BoxFile boxFile = boxClient.getFilesManager().getFile(fileId, requestObj);

Get 30 child items, starting from the 20th one, requiring etag, description, and name to be included.

BoxPagingRequestObject requestObj = BoxPagingRequestObject.BpagingRequestObject(30, 20);
requestObj.getRequestExtras().addField(BoxFolder.FIELD_NAME);
requestObj.getRequestExtras().addField(BoxFolder.FIELD_DESCRIPTION);
requestObj.getRequestExtras().addField(BoxFolder.FIELD_ETAG);
BoxCollection collection = 
	boxClient.getFoldersManager().getFolderItems(folderId, requestObj);

BoxFileUploadRequestObject requestObj = 
	BoxFileUploadRequestObject.uploadFileRequestObject(parent, "name"�, file);
BoxFile bFile = boxClient.getFilesManager().uploadFile(requestObj);

BoxFileUploadRequestObject requestObj = 
	BoxFileUploadRequestObject.uploadFileRequestObject(parent, "name", file)
		.setListener(listener));
BoxFile bFile = boxClient.getFilesManager().uploadFile(requestObj);

boxClient.getFilesManager().downloadFile(fileId, null);

Delete a file, but only if the etag matches.

BoxDefaultRequestObject requestObj = new BoxDefaultRequestObject();
requestObject.getRequestExtras.setIfMatch(etag);
boxClient.getFilesManager().deleteFile(fileId, requestObj);

You need to supply a customized IBoxRESTClient to construct a BoxClient.

	IBoxRESTClient restClient = new BoxRESTClient() {
            @Override
            public HttpClient getRawHttpClient() {
                HttpClient client = super.getRawHttpClient();
                // Now do the configure settings.
                HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("{proxy ip/url}",{proxy port}, "{proxy scheme, e.g. http}";
                client.getParams().setParameter(ConnRouteNames.DEFAULT_PROXY, proxy);
                return client; 
            }
        };
        
	BoxClient client = new BoxClient(clientId, clientSecret, null, null, restClient BoxConfigBuilder.build());

The SDK provides an OAuth UI using javafx, this is a seperate java project in our github due to the fact that this UI requires javafx sdk and not everybody wants it. To install javafx, you can either follow javafx instruction or install the javafx eclipse plugin

You can find a sample using this oauth UI here. One thing to pay extra attention is that the call backs in the IAuthFlowListener() will all run on javafx thread, they cannot trigger java swing data change directly, the trigger need to be done in java swing thread. In the sample, this is done by SwingUtilities.invokeLater(runnable) method.

• Resource manager interfaces. pre-v3, our boxClient.get***Manager() method returns concrete class of resource managers. For the purpose of a cleaner interface, in v3, they return resource manager interfaces.

old code:
BoxFilesManager filesManager = boxClient.getFilesManager();
filesManager.doSomething(...);
new code:
IBoxFilesManager filesManager = boxClient.getFilesManager();
filesManager.doSomething(...);

• Made certain methods more convenient, e.g., OAuth api related methods:

old code:
BoxOAuthRequestObject obj = BoxOAuthRequestObject.crateOAuthRequestObject(code, clientId, clientSecret, redirectUrl);
BoxOAuthData oauth = oauthManager.createOAuth(obj);
new Code:
BoxOAuthData oauth = oauthManager.createOAuth(code, clientId, clientSecret, redirectUrl);

• BoxFilesManager/BoxFoldersManager. Methods acting upon BoxItems are moved to BoxItemsManager to avoid confusion. Example, get a BoxFile.

Old code:
Two ways to get it:
1. boxClient.getFilesManager.getFile(fileId, null);
2. boxClient.getFilesManager.getItem(fileId, null, BoxResourceType.FILE);
New code:
Two ways to get it:
1. same as old code.
2. boxClient.getBoxItemsManager.getItem(fileId, null, BoxResourceType.FILE);

• Trash Manager: old code has methods for trashed files/folders in FilesManager/FoldersManager, new code moved them into a trash manager. Example:

old code:
boxClient.getFilesManager.getTrashFile(fileId, null);
new code:
boxClient.getTrashManager.getTrashFile(fileId, null);

• request objects: To avoid confusion, request objects now are more api specific. There are some type changes, however the way you used to write the code remain the same. One example:

Old code of create a shared link.
BoxFileRequestObject  obj = BoxFileRequestObject. createSharedLinkRequestObject(......);
filesManager.createSharedLink(fileId, obj);
New code:
BoxSharedLinkRequestObject obj = 
   BoxSharedLinkRequestObject.
   createSharedLinkRequestObject(sharedLinkEntity);
filesManager.createSharedLink(fileId, obj);

Also in order to provide cleaner interface, we moved the setters for basic http requests in the request objects to a "requestExtra".

Old code:
requestObject.addField("some field");
new code:
requestObject.getRequestExtras().addField("some field");

(Optional/Deprecated)

• utils methods in resource managers. In case you were using the utils methods in resource managers to filter for specific items from collection, they are now deprecated and moved to util methods.

old code:
List<BoxFile> filesInCollection = BoxFilesManager.getFiles(collection);
new code:
List<BoxFile> filesInCollection = Utils.getTypedObjects(collection, BoxFile.class);

• get thumbnail.

old code: 
InputStream is = filesManager.downloadThumbnail(fileId, extension, null);
new code:
BoxThumbnail thumbnail = filesManager.downloadThumbnail(fileId, extension, null);

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