Search Method

Searches for resources.

Syntax

dropbox.search(folderResource, query, [callback])

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for this method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

This method searches for resources matching Query within the specified FolderResource.

FolderResource must be a folder path, an Id-based, relative folder path, a folder resource Id, or empty string (in which case the current user's entire Dropbox is searched). The SearchCategories, SearchFileExtensions, SearchKind, and SearchNamesOnly properties may be used to further control the search options the server uses.

Calling this method will fire the ResourceList event once for each search result, and will also populate the Resource* properties.

If there are still more search results available to list when this method returns, the SearchMarker property will be populated. Continue to call this method until SearchMarker is empty to accumulate all pages of results in the Resource* properties.

The MaxSearchResults configuration setting can be used to control how many results are returned each time this method is called.