Monitor events in subfolders recursively #828

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1. lukaszsocha2 commented on Jul 12, 2023

   

   lukaszsocha2

   on Jul 12, 2023

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   Hi @annie0467,
   by default generate_events_with_long_polling() provides ALL events for the authenticated user. So if an action takes place in any directory, you will get an event for it. Event has field source, which allow to get more details about event source. It could be one of: File / Folder / User / Event source object. See Event object documentation here. If the event source is File, Folder or Event source, it will have parent field, so you can filter out events happening in a specific folder (or a set of folders).
   You can use this code snippet to print name of the folder, in which the event takes place:

   events = client.events().generate_events_with_long_polling()
   for event in events:
       event_source = event.source
       if event_source.parent:
           print(f'Got {event.event_type} event in folder: {event_source.parent.name}')
   

   Best,
   @lukaszsocha2
2. annie0467 commented on Jul 14, 2023

   

   annie0467

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   Thanks for your reply @lukaszsocha2
   I was using the exact same code with tweaks of my folder id matching
   but I now have figured how to track events in all subfolders using this same code.

   My only concern is that even after exception handling, the monitoring code get errors unexpectedly say after a few minutes or so

       raise BoxAPIException(
   boxsdk.exception.BoxAPIException: Message: Authorization Failed
   Status: 404
   Code: not_found
   

   And I confirmed that there is not authorization problem in the folder path I give
   any suggestions?
3. mhagmajer commented on Jul 24, 2023

   

   mhagmajer

   on Jul 24, 2023

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   Hi @annie0467, can you share your monitoring code that errors after a few minutes? We'll try to reproduce on our side
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