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Hi Everyone,

 

I have a fairly easy task in my hands but i am having some trouble understanding the documentation as I am unable to do it.

 

I have a process that needs to access a Box folder that I am a co-owner of and have been granted collaborative access and download a couple of files, this process is supposed to happen at early hours in the morning so it would be nice if no user interaction is needed. I have checked the forums and it seems that an App that logs through jwt is the recommended answer in similar cases. So I set up an application I create the Public and Private keys and I authorize it to act in behalf of the user (i.e. me).

 

If I use the developer key everything works fine, I can download the files correctly but if I try to access with JWT it only lists the folders and files that I have create and thus I cannot access the proper folder.

 

I am using the python SDK, but if I need to use the http API for it to work it is not  a big deal.

 

This is the code I have right now:

from boxsdk import JWTAuth, Client



def main():

    user_id = "XXXXXXXXXX"



    sdk = JWTAuth.from_settings_file('key_config.json')



    client = Client(sdk)

    user = client.user(user_id=user_id).get()



    client = client.as_user(user)

    items = client.folder(folder_id='0').get_items()

    for item in items:

        print('{0} {1} is named "{2}"'.format(item.type.capitalize(), item.id, item.name))
main()

This list the user folders and files but only the ones owned by him.

 

If instead of accessing the root folder I try to access the shared folder I get a 404 "folder with value d_YYYYYYYYY not found"

 

As far as I know I have give the app the correct permissions.

 

Is there a limitation I am not aware of?

Am I doing something wrong?

Is there a special permission I have to set up for co-owned folders?

 

Thank you in advance !!




 


Are you using a token associated with your apps service account? If so, you need to ensure that the AutomationUser is added as a collaborator on the necessary folder so it can access it. 


 


Best, 


Kourtney 



Hi

 

Your answer pointed me in the right direction, I was using the token associated with my service account when what I wanted was to use the one associated with the user account.

 

I needed to add some lines and the end result is the following (probably can be cleaned up and remove some redundancies)

 

def main():



    user_id = "XXXXXXXXXX"



    sdk = JWTAuth.from_settings_file('key_config.json')

    client = Client(sdk)

    user = client.user(user_id=user_id).get()



    # NEW CODE

    auth_user = sdk.authenticate_user(user)

    sdk = JWTAuth.from_settings_file('key_config.json', access_token=auth_user)

    client = Client(sdk)

    

    items = client.folder(folder_id='0').get_items()

   

    for item in items:

        print('{0} {1} is named "{2}"'.format(item.type.capitalize(), item.id, item.name))

Thank you!


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