Upgrading Magpie

From 0.6.x to 0.7.0

Existing successful results and write defaults remain unchanged. The main change is option validation: Storage no longer ignores misspelled or unsupported keywords, duplicate options, invalid booleans, empty revisions, invalid write modes or invalid transfer/batch limits. High-level Files uploads validate their options too. These errors raise ArgumentError before I/O. In batches, invalid per-item options affect that item only; invalid common options stop the call before any item starts.

Remove previously ignored options. If you need a Dropbox field that Storage does not expose, use its low-level endpoint module. Keep request configuration inside request: [...], to separate HTTP settings from Dropbox arguments:

client = Magpie.Client.new("ACCESS_TOKEN", retry: [max_retries: 2], timeout: 30_000)
Magpie.Storage.list(client, "/Backup", recursive: true, request: [timeout: 5_000])

Global configuration still works. Per-client and per-operation settings are optional; the default execution budget is unlimited. A configured deadline adds Magpie.TimeoutError to operational failures returned by normal Storage calls. Bang functions and streams raise it. The budget does not interrupt running callbacks or kill the process. The configuration guide explains what it covers and how to configure OAuth requests separately.

API errors add fields without removing existing ones. retry_after is measured in milliseconds; attempts includes the initial HTTP attempt and an auth replay when one occurs. Log Magpie.Error.diagnostics(error) when response bodies and summaries are not needed. Scope checks use explicitly supplied grants and return :unknown when grants are unavailable.

From 0.6.0–0.6.2 to 0.6.3

This patch hides credentials in client/token inspection and token server status reports. Credential fields remain available through explicit access; inspection is not a substitute for secure storage, and converting structs to raw maps can still expose their contents. Refresh callback failures log the exception type without the potentially sensitive exception message.

if_rev now always performs the conditional upload, including when combined with skip_unchanged: true. This prevents a metadata lookup from bypassing the revision precondition, at the cost of uploading identical content in this combination. The default write mode remains add with automatic renaming.

Upload failures remain intact when verification is enabled, and pagination preserves exceptions returned by page callbacks. No API migration is required.

From 0.5 to 0.6

Magpie 0.6 is additive: existing 0.5 calls keep their signatures and successful results. The Storage layer now also returns expected Req transport failures as {:error, exception} instead of raising; bang variants still raise.

New Storage capabilities include:

• verified uploads with verify: true and %Magpie.IntegrityError{}
• unchanged-file detection with skip_unchanged: true
• conditional writes with if_rev: rev
• transfer progress: fn transferred, total -> ... end
• copy/4, move/4, mkdir/3, put_many/3 and delete_many/3
• Dropbox request IDs on %Magpie.Error{} and request/retry telemetry

Automatic retries apply only to selected read-only file routes: downloads, metadata, temporary links, listings, revisions and search. Mutation endpoints remain single-attempt because repeating a timed-out write can create duplicate effects.

Use 0.6.3 or newer. Version 0.6.1 fixes a regression in 0.6.0 that allowed Dropbox API errors raised during Storage.list/3 pagination to escape instead of returning {:error, %Magpie.Error{}}.

def deps do
  [{:magpie, "~> 0.6.3"}]
end

From 0.3 to 0.4

Magpie 0.4 decodes the metadata of the files endpoints into structs — Magpie.FileMetadata, Magpie.FolderMetadata and Magpie.DeletedMetadata — instead of handing back the raw JSON maps with their ".tag" keys. Code written against 0.3 that reads those maps needs a small update. This guide lists every call whose result changed, with the 0.3 and 0.4 versions side by side.

Nothing else moved: clients, OAuth, the token server, uploads, pagination, Magpie.Async, the sharing/users/file-requests modules and the {:ok, result} | {:error, %Magpie.Error{}} contract are untouched.

Bump the dependency

def deps do
  [
    {:magpie, "~> 0.4"}
  ]
end

Magpie now requires req ~> 0.7.4 and declares its own dependency on jason, which it always used for the Dropbox-API-Arg header. Neither should need attention unless your app pins an older Req.

What a struct looks like

Every field Dropbox documents for a file is a field on the struct, with a few upgrades over the raw map:

• client_modified and server_modified are DateTime structs, not strings
• content_hash is a first-class field, and Magpie.Metadata.content_hash/1 computes the same hash locally so you can verify a transfer
• is_downloadable defaults to true when Dropbox omits it
• nested objects Dropbox may attach (sharing_info, media_info, symlink_info, export_info, file_lock_info, property_groups) stay raw maps

%Magpie.FileMetadata{
  name: "report.pdf",
  id: "id:a4ayc_80_OEAAAAAAAAAXw",
  path_lower: "/backup/report.pdf",
  path_display: "/Backup/report.pdf",
  client_modified: ~U[2026-09-01 15:50:38Z],
  server_modified: ~U[2026-09-01 15:50:39Z],
  rev: "015d5ff0b3f0e4a000000027c3f9a10",
  size: 48_213,
  content_hash: "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
  is_downloadable: true,
  ...
}

The kind of entry is the struct itself — there is no ".tag" to inspect.

Which calls changed

Page envelopes ("entries", "cursor", "has_more", "is_deleted") and search matches ("match_type", "highlights") keep their string keys — only the metadata inside them changed. Batch results (finish_batch/2, Magpie.Files.CopyBatch, MoveBatch, DeleteBatch, ...) and everything outside Magpie.Files are as they were.

Before and after

Reading fields

# 0.3
{:ok, metadata} = Magpie.Files.get_metadata(client, "/report.pdf")
metadata["size"]
metadata["server_modified"]                        # "2026-09-01T15:50:39Z"

# 0.4
{:ok, %Magpie.FileMetadata{} = file} = Magpie.Files.get_metadata(client, "/report.pdf")
file.size
file.server_modified                               # ~U[2026-09-01 15:50:39Z]
DateTime.to_iso8601(file.server_modified)          # the old string, if you stored it

Telling files and folders apart

# 0.3
client
|> Magpie.Files.ListFolder.stream("/Photos")
|> Stream.filter(&(&1[".tag"] == "file"))
|> Enum.map(& &1["name"])

# 0.4
client
|> Magpie.Files.ListFolder.stream("/Photos")
|> Stream.filter(&match?(%Magpie.FileMetadata{}, &1))
|> Enum.map(& &1.name)

Or match on all three kinds at once:

Enum.map(entries, fn
  %Magpie.FileMetadata{name: name, size: size} -> {:file, name, size}
  %Magpie.FolderMetadata{name: name} -> {:folder, name}
  %Magpie.DeletedMetadata{name: name} -> {:deleted, name}
end)

Uploads

# 0.3
{:ok, metadata} = Magpie.Files.upload_file(client, "/Backup/db.dump", "priv/db.dump")
Logger.info("uploaded #{metadata["name"]} (#{metadata["size"]} bytes)")

# 0.4
{:ok, %Magpie.FileMetadata{} = file} = Magpie.Files.upload_file(client, "/Backup/db.dump", "priv/db.dump")
Logger.info("uploaded #{file.name} (#{file.size} bytes)")

# New in 0.4: verify the upload against the hash Dropbox computed
file.content_hash == Magpie.Metadata.content_hash(File.stream!("priv/db.dump", 4 * 1024 * 1024))

Wrapped results: create, delete, copy, move

The "metadata" envelope is gone — the struct is the whole result.

# 0.3
{:ok, %{"metadata" => %{"id" => id}}} = Magpie.Files.create_folder(client, "/Photos")
{:ok, %{"metadata" => moved}} = Magpie.Files.move(client, "/a.txt", "/b.txt")

# 0.4
{:ok, %Magpie.FolderMetadata{id: id}} = Magpie.Files.create_folder(client, "/Photos")
{:ok, %Magpie.FileMetadata{} = moved} = Magpie.Files.move(client, "/a.txt", "/b.txt")

The same applies to error handling that matched on the envelope:

# 0.3
case Magpie.Files.create_folder(client, "/Existing") do
  {:ok, %{"metadata" => metadata}} -> metadata
  {:error, %Magpie.Error{status: 409, summary: "path/conflict" <> _}} -> :already_exists
end

# 0.4
case Magpie.Files.create_folder(client, "/Existing") do
  {:ok, %Magpie.FolderMetadata{} = folder} -> folder
  {:error, %Magpie.Error{status: 409, summary: "path/conflict" <> _}} -> :already_exists
end

Search

Dropbox wraps each match's entry in a one-variant union; 0.4 flattens it.

# 0.3
{:ok, %{"matches" => matches}} = Magpie.Files.search(client, "invoice")
Enum.map(matches, & &1["metadata"]["metadata"]["path_display"])

# 0.4
{:ok, %{"matches" => matches}} = Magpie.Files.search(client, "invoice")
Enum.map(matches, & &1["metadata"].path_display)

LiveView uploads

# 0.3
consume_uploaded_entries(socket, :report, fn %{metadata: metadata}, _entry ->
  {:ok, metadata["path_display"]}
end)

# 0.4
consume_uploaded_entries(socket, :report, fn %{metadata: metadata}, _entry ->
  {:ok, metadata.path_display}
end)

Tests that stub Dropbox

Stubs keep returning JSON — Magpie decodes it on the way in — so only the assertions change. Include the ".tag" in stubbed entries, exactly as Dropbox sends it, so each one decodes into the struct you expect:

# 0.3
Req.Test.stub(Magpie, fn conn ->
  Req.Test.json(conn, %{"entries" => [%{"name" => "db.dump"}]})
end)

assert {:ok, %{"entries" => [%{"name" => "db.dump"}]}} = MyApp.Backups.list()

# 0.4
Req.Test.stub(Magpie, fn conn ->
  Req.Test.json(conn, %{"entries" => [%{".tag" => "file", "name" => "db.dump", "rev" => "015"}]})
end)

assert {:ok, %{"entries" => [%Magpie.FileMetadata{name: "db.dump"}]}} = MyApp.Backups.list()

An entry stubbed without a ".tag" is decoded like Dropbox's untagged responses: as a file when it has a "rev", as a folder otherwise — except on calls that only ever return files (upload, upload_file, finish_data, restore, list_revisions), where it is always a file.

Deprecated

• Magpie.Files.create_folder_to_struct/2 and delete_folder_to_struct/2 still return the legacy %Magpie.Folder{}, but emit a deprecation warning at compile time. Use create_folder/2 and delete_folder/2 directly — they return the richer Magpie.FolderMetadata now.
• Magpie.Folder is kept only for those two functions.

Keeping the raw maps

If some code needs the untouched payload — a field Magpie does not map, or a migration you would rather do gradually — call the endpoint through Magpie.post/3, which never decodes:

{:ok, raw} = Magpie.post(client, "/files/get_metadata", %{"path" => "/report.pdf"})
raw["server_modified"]
# => "2026-09-01T15:50:39Z"

# ...and decode it yourself when ready
%Magpie.FileMetadata{} = Magpie.Metadata.decode(raw)