cloud_sync_box 0.1.1

Box Content API adapter for the cloud_sync family. Implements StorageAdapter with a lazy path-to-ID resolver that translates Box's ID-based API into path-based sync operations.

cloud_sync_box

Box Content API adapter for the cloud_sync family. Plugs into SyncClient from cloud_sync_core.

Install

dependencies:
  cloud_sync_core: ^0.1.0
  cloud_sync_box: ^0.1.0

Quick start

import 'package:cloud_sync_core/cloud_sync_core.dart';
import 'package:cloud_sync_box/cloud_sync_box.dart';

final authClient = BoxAuthClient(accessToken: 'your-oauth2-access-token');

final adapter = BoxAdapter(
  config: BoxConfig(rootFolderId: '0'),  // "0" = user's Box root
  httpClient: authClient,
);

final client = SyncClient(adapter: adapter);
final result = await client.sync(localPath: '/path/to/data');

Auth — bring your own client

This package does not handle OAuth2 flows. Consumers supply an http.Client that has already been authenticated. The included BoxAuthClient is a convenience for the simple Bearer-token case:

final authClient = BoxAuthClient(accessToken: accessToken);

For JWT App Auth (server-to-server), build your own http.Client that signs each request with a JWT and pass it to BoxAdapter.

How path resolution works

Box's API is ID-based (fileId, folderId), but StorageAdapter contracts on paths. On first sync, BoxAdapter performs one recursive walk below rootFolderId to build an in-memory path → id cache. Subsequent operations are O(1) lookups. New files and folders created during the session are registered in the cache immediately.

Single-client assumption: the cache is per-adapter-instance. Concurrent mutations from another client won't invalidate our cache automatically — reinitialize BoxAdapter (or call the sync operation again, which re-walks) to pick up external changes.

SHA256 preservation

Box provides SHA1 natively (not SHA256). To satisfy the engine's SHA256 contract, this adapter stores the SHA256 as Box custom metadata at /files/{id}/metadata/global/properties under the key sha256. On listFiles, the adapter reads the metadata back.

Files uploaded outside this library (or before this library managed them) surface with sha256 == null, at which point the sync engine falls back to download-and-hash.

Limitations

• File size ceiling: ~50MB. v1 uses Box's single-request upload endpoint. Chunked upload (required for >50MB) is planned for a future release.
• No shared-link or collaboration features. This adapter is for sync only.

License

MIT