Box Dotnet SDK GENERATED

We are excited to introduce the latest generation (currently in Beta) of Box Dotnet SDK Gen, designed to elevate the developer experience and streamline your integration with the Box Content Cloud.

With this SDK, you’ll have access to:

1. Full API Support: The new generation of Box SDKs empowers developers with complete coverage of the Box API ecosystem. You can now access all the latest features and functionalities offered by Box, allowing you to build even more sophisticated and feature-rich applications.
2. Rapid API Updates: Say goodbye to waiting for new Box APIs to be incorporated into the SDK. With our new auto-generation development approach, we can now add new Box APIs to the SDK at a much faster pace (in a matter of days). This means you can leverage the most up-to-date features in your applications without delay.
3. Embedded Documentation: We understand that easy access to information is crucial for developers. With our new approach, we have included comprehensive documentation for all objects and parameters directly in the source code of the SDK. This means you no longer need to look up this information on the developer portal, saving you time and streamlining your development process.
4. Enhanced Convenience Methods: Our commitment to enhancing your development experience continues with the introduction of convenience methods. These methods cover various aspects such as chunk uploads, classification, and much more.
5. Seamless Start: The new SDKs integrate essential functionalities like authentication, automatic retries with exponential backoff, exception handling, request cancellation, and type checking, enabling you to focus solely on your application's business logic.

Embrace the new generation of Box SDKs and unlock the full potential of the Box Content Cloud.

Table of contents

• Installing
• Getting Started
• Integration Tests
  • Running integration tests locally
    • Create Custom Application
    • Export configuration
    • Running tests
• Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?
• Copyright and License

Installing

In the current version, you can refer to your project directly after cloning it to a local directory, or build the .dll files by running the dotnet build command and then refer to them in your project.

The Nuget package and other artifacts on Github will be published when the SDK enters public beta.

Getting Started

To get started with the SDK, get a Developer Token from the Configuration page of your app in the Box Developer Console. You can use this token to make test calls for your own Box account.

The SDK provides a BoxDeveloperTokenAuth class, which allows you to authenticate using your Developer Token. Use instance of BoxDeveloperTokenAuth to initialize BoxClient object. Using BoxClient object you can access managers, which allow you to perform some operations on your Box account.

The example below demonstrates how to authenticate with Developer Token and print names of all items inside a root folder.

using Box.Sdk.Gen;

var auth = new BoxDeveloperTokenAuth(token: "DEVELOPER_TOKEN_GOES_HERE");
var client = new BoxClient(auth: auth);

var items = await client.Folders.GetFolderItemsAsync(folderId: "0");
if (items.Entries != null)
{
    foreach (var item in items.Entries)
    {
        if (item.FileMini != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(item.FileMini.Name);
        }
        else if (item.FolderMini != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(item.FolderMini.Name);
        }
        else if (item.WebLinkMini != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(item.WebLinkMini.Name);
        }
    }
}

The usage docs that show how to make calls to the Box API with the SDK can be found here.

We recommend, familiarizing yourself with the remaining authentication methods, uploading files and downloading files.

Integration Tests

Running integration tests locally

Create Custom Application

To run integration tests locally you will need a Custom App created in the Box Developer Console with Server Authentication (with JWT) selected as authentication method. Once created you can edit properties of the application:

• In section App Access Level select App + Enterprise Access. You can enable all Application Scopes.
• In section Advanced Features enable Make API calls using the as-user header and Generate user access tokens.

Now select Authorization and submit application to be reviewed by account admin.

Export configuration

1. Select Configuration tab and in the bottom in the section App Settings download your app configuration settings as JSON.
2. Encode configuration file to Base64, e.g. using command: base64 -i path_to_json_file
3. Set environment variable: JWT_CONFIG_BASE_64 with base64 encoded jwt configuration file
4. Set environment variable: BOX_FILE_REQUEST_ID with ID of file request already created in the user account, BOX_EXTERNAL_USER_EMAIL with email of free external user which not belongs to any enterprise.
5. Set environment variable: WORKFLOW_FOLDER_ID with the ID of the Relay workflow that deletes the file that triggered the workflow. The workflow should have a manual start to be able to start it from the API.

Running tests

To run integration tests locally:

1. dotnet test

Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?

Need to contact us directly? Browse the issues tickets! Or, if that doesn't work, file a new one and we will get back to you. If you have general questions about the Box API, you can post to the Box Developer Forum.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2023 Box, Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.