List files/folders

You can list all files and folders within a specific folder by simply calling listFiles on the frontend. Here’s a code snippet that shows how to do it:

import { API } from "space-api";

// Initialize api with the project name and url of the space cloud
const api = new API("todo_app", "http://localhost:4122");

// Upload the file
api.FileStore().listFiles("/some-path")
  .then(res => {
    if (res.status === 200) {
      // res.data.result contains list of files / folders
      console.log("Files: ", res.data.result)
    }
    // Error fetching list of files
  })
  .catch(ex => {
    // Exception occured while processing request
  });

As shown above, the listFiles function takes a single parameter path and lists all the files/folders located at that path.

The path can be nested as well. For example, if you give a path - /folder1/folder2, then listFiles method returns all the files/folders located in folder2, which are in folder1.

Responselink

The response object sent by server looks something like this:

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "result": [
      { 
        "name": "Folder 1",
        "type": "dir"
      },
      { 
        "name": "file1.jpg",
        "type": "file"
      },
      { 
        "name": "file2.txt",
        "type": "file"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Here name is the name of the folder/file and type describes whether the item is a file or directory.

A response object sent by the server contains the status and data fields explained below:

Possible values for status:

• 200 - Successfully fetched list of files/folders
• 401 - Request was unauthenticated
• 403 - Request was unauthorized
• 404 - Path does not exist
• 500 - Internal server error

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