Get file ID of a given path

Question

is there a direct method to get file ID by giving a path (e.g. /some/folder/deep/inside/file.txt)? I know this can be done by recursively checking folder\'s contents, but a simp

Answer 1

An alternative to this would be to extract the target file/folder name from the path and search for it using the search API

like this: https://api.box.com/2.0/search?query=filename.txt

This gives back all the matching entries with their path_collections which provides the whole hierarchy for every entry. Something like this:

 "path_collection": {
                "total_count": 2,
                "entries": [
                    {
                        "type": "folder",
                        "id": "0",
                        "sequence_id": null,
                        "etag": null,
                        "name": "All Files"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "folder",
                        "id": "2988397987",
                        "sequence_id": "0",
                        "etag": "0",
                        "name": "dummy"
                    }
                ]
           }

Path for this entry can be reverse engineered as /dummy/filename.txt

Just compare this path against the path you're looking for. If it matches, then that's the search result you're looking for. This is just to reduce the number of ReST calls you need to make to arrive at the result. Hope it makes sense.