GoogleDrive metadata for copied images - google-drive-api

Im getting images from GoogleDrive via files.list method, response looks like this:
items:[{
"title": "canon_eos_30D.CR2",
"fileExtension": "cr2",
"imageMediaMetadata": {
"width": 3504,
"height": 2336
}
}]
Everything is OK, but after I copied this image via GoogleDrive web interface response looks like this.
items:[{
"title": "Copy of canon_eos_30D.CR2",
"fileExtension": "cr2",
"imageMediaMetadata": {
"width": 0,
"height": 0
}
}]
imageMediaMetadata is not copied! (doesn't matter what jpg or cr2). Then I tried to copy image on machine and sync it via client — everything is OK.
Looks like imageMediaMetadata parsed during image import and this is GoogleDrive bug.
Is there any way to get this info to workaround this bug or is there any way to force metadata reparsing until this bug is there?
P.S.: JFYI: If I add properties field to filter to files.list method these broken metadata fields excluded from response.

This is a known issue with how image files are copied in the Drive UI. Copying image files via the Drive API doesn't have this issue. A workaround, if unpleasant one, is to download and re-upload the contents of the file, which will cause it to be re-scanned and the metadata to be populated.

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I want to maker a Forge Heat Map using my personal CSV files with a Revit Building

I hope you all are well. I have been trying to use the Forge reference application template to be able to make a heat map for a building (I have the .RVT file for it).
However, whenever I try to run this github.com/weshinchman/forge-dataviz-testrepo it just displays the following page on my local host.
Please let me know if you have had similar problems or if you know how to fix this. Thanx
Please see the snapshot I shared here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72951088/7745569
The CSV settings in .env file work without any problem on my side.
ADAPTER_TYPE=csv
#CSV_MODEL_JSON=server/gateways/synthetic-data/device-models.json
#CSV_DEVICE_JSON=server/gateways/synthetic-data/devices.json
#CSV_FOLDER=server/gateways/csv/
CSV_DATA_START=2011-02-01T08:00:00.000Z
CSV_DATA_END=2011-02-20T13:51:10.511Z
#CSV_DELIMITER="\t"
#CSV_LINE_BREAK="\n"
#CSV_TIMESTAMP_COLUMN="time"
#CSV_FILE_EXTENSION=".csv"
To make the app work with more sensors, you must add individual CVS files named with the device ids of devices.json to server/gateways/csv. For example, the Hyperion-1.csv is for the below device.
{
"id": "Hyperion-1",
"name": "Conference 103",
"position": {
"x": "26",
"y": " -63",
"z": " -9.6"
},
"lastActivityTime": "2020-10-15T02:43:06.4432973Z"
},
For Hyperion-24, you must have a CSV file named as Hyperion-24.csv under server/gateways/csv.

Google Drive Rest API - How to check if file has changed

Is there a reliable way, short of comparing full contents, of checking if a file was updated/change in Drive?
I have been struggling with this for a bit. Here's the two things I have tried:
1. File version number
I upload a plain text file to Google Drive (simple upload, update endpoint), and save the version from the file metadata returned after a successful upload.
Then I poll the Drive API (get endpoint) occasionally to check if the version has changed.
The trouble is that within a second or two of uploading the file, the version gets bumped up again.
There are no changes to the file content. The file has not been opened, viewed, or even downloaded anywhere else. Still, the version number increases from what it was after the upload.
To my code this version number change indicates that the remote file has been changed in Drive, so it downloads the new version. Every time!
2. The Changes endpoints
As an alternative I tried using the Changes api.
After I upload the file, I get a page token using changes.getStartPageToken or changes.list.
Later I use this page token to poll the Changes API for changes, and filter the changes for the fileId of uploaded file. I use these options when polling for changes:
{
"includeRemoved": false
"restrictToMyDrive": true
"spaces": "drive"
}
Here again, there is the same problem as with the version number. The page token returned immediately after uploading the file changes again within a second or two. The new page token shows the uploaded file having been changed.
Again, there is no change to the content of the file. It hasn't been opened, updated, downloaded anywhere else. It isn't shared with anyone else.
Yet, a few seconds after uploading, the file reappears in the changes list.
As a result, the local code redownloads the file from Drive, assuming remote changes.
Possible workaround
As a hacky hook, I could wait a few seconds after the file upload before getting the new file-version/changes-page-token. This may take care of the delayed version increment issue.
However, there is no documentation of what is causing this phantom change in version number (or changes.list). So, I have no sure way of knowing:
How long a wait is safe enough to get a 'settled' version number without losing possible changes by other users/apps?
Whether the new (delayed) version number will be stable, or may change again at any time for no reason?
Is there a reliable way, short of comparing full contents, of checking if a file was updated/change in Drive?
You can try using the md5Checksum property of the File resource object, if your file is not a Google Doc file (ie. binary). You should be able to use that to track changes to the contents of your binary files.
You might also be able to use the Revisions API.
The Revisions resource object also has a md5Checksum property.
As a workaround, how about using Drive Activity API? I think that there are several answers for your situation. So please think of this as just one of them.
When Drive Activity API is used, the activity information about the target file can be retrieved. For example, from ActionDetail, you can see whether the target file was edited, renamed, deleted and so on.
The sample endpoint and request body are as follows.
Endpoint:
POST https://driveactivity.googleapis.com/v2/activity:query?fields=activities%2CnextPageToken
Request body:
{"itemName": "items/### fileId of target file ###"}
Response:
Sample response is as follows. You can see the information from this. The file with the fileId and filename was edited at the timestamp.
{
"activities": [
{
"primaryActionDetail": {
"edit": {} <--- If the target file was edited, this property is added.
},
"actors": [
{
"user": {
"knownUser": {
"personName": "people/### userId who edited the target file ###",
"isCurrentUser": true
}
}
}
],
"actions": [
{
"detail": {
"edit": {}
}
}
],
"targets": [
{
"driveItem": {
"name": "items/### fileId of target file ###",
"title": "### filename of target file ###",
"file": {},
"mimeType": "### mimeType of target file ###",
"owner": {
"user": {
"knownUser": {
"personName": "people/### owner's userId ###",
"isCurrentUser": true
}
}
}
}
}
],
"timestamp": "2000-01-01T00:00:0.000Z"
},
],
"nextPageToken": "###"
}
Note:
When you use this API in my environment, please enable Drive Activity API at API console and include https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.activity.readonly in the scopes.
Although when I used this API, I felt that the response was fast, if the response was slow when you use this, I apologize.
References:
Google Drive Activity API
ActionDetail
If this was not what you want, I apologize.
What you are seeing is the eventual consistency feature of the Google Drive filesystem. If you think about search, it doesn't matter how quickly a search index is updated, only that it is eventually updated and is very efficient for reading. Google Drive works on the same premise.
Drive acknowledges your updates as quickly as possible. Long before those updates have propagated to all worldwide copies of your file. Derived data (eg. timestamps and I think I recall, md5sums) are also calculated after the update has "completed".
The solution largely depends on how problematic the redundant syncs are to your app.
The delay of a few seconds is enough to deal with the vast majority of phantom updates.
You could switch to the v2 API and use etags.
You could implement your own version number using custom properties. So every time you sync up, you increment your own version number. You only sync down if the application version number has changed.

Access local chrome-urls in chrome-app

How can I get access to the local chrome-urls to receive content from there? For example use an iframe for chrome://version or access the content directly with AJAX.
Any ideas? I tried the following permission:
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"app": {
"permissions": [
"chrome://*",
"chrome://version"
]
}
}
--> "Not allowed to load local resource"
I had a look at the possible permissions but didn't find anything that fits my expectation. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declare_permissions
Thanks a lot in advance
Nope, you can't access chrome:// URLs in an app.
It's indirectly possible in an extension through tabs API, but there's nothing for the moment that can allow an app to do that.

Using chrome.storage api from extension script - data is namespaced by page URL?

I'm using the chrome.storage api, which is supposed to allow us access to the user's data storage without the need for a background page:
https://developer.chrome.com/stable/extensions/storage.html
The extension is working fine for any particular page, but it seems like data is stored in such a way that it is not accessible when the extension is loaded for a page with a different URL.
Basic get data code:
var key = 'commonKey';
chrome.storage.sync.get(key, function(items) {console.log(items);}
I'm matching the content script on a URL like http://test.com/ABC, and the data correctly persists across multiple loads of that page. However when I load http://test.com/CDE, it gets and sets a different set of data (and doesn't affect the data loaded on page ABC).
Is there some behavior here that is namespacing the data per URL? I looked through the documentation and other questions but couldn't find anything of the sort.
The manifest looks like:
{
"name": "Test script",
"manifest_version": 2,
"content_scripts" : [
{
"matches": ["http://www.test.com/*"],
"js": ["jquery.min.js", "contentscript.js"]
}
],
"permissions": [
"storage"
]
}
The problem was here:
var key = 'commonKey';
chrome.storage.sync.get(key, function(items) {console.log(items);}
using key in place of 'commonKey' when setting the data resulted in the data being stored under the string 'key' rather than 'commonKey' as expected. That plus the logic in the rest of the code caused the above behavior.

Can using the Documents List API cause files to appear on the change list?

My application is currently using the Document List API to track file and metadata changes using the Changelist. When we find a file has changed, we grab the metadata, the acl information, and the actual file. Lately we've found that we are getting a number a percentage of files that continually show up in the changelist every time we check.
After a bit of investigating, there is very little metadata that is changing in the file.
Here are examples from two different files that continually show up in the changelists.
Is there anyway I can avoid seeing these files over and over again? I have partially optimized to not download the files again, but it is still taking extra quite a bit of overhead to weed out false-positives from the changelist. Does anyone know if updating my app to use the Drive API will fix this issue?
Here is an example of what I'm seeing:
File 1 - Through the Documents List API
Initial Info
entry:etag=\""CkcaSU1LASt7ImBk"\"
id:...feeds/id/spreadsheet%3A0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGhZSVZ4UEtyT2tmRnZsR3lGNFBrVWc
published:2010-12-13T01:58:22.467Z
updated:2010-12-13T02:03:22.269Z
...
link:rel=\"thumbnail\" type=\"image/jpeg\" href=...?id=0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGhZSVZ4UEtyT2tmRnZsR3lGNFBrVWc&v=1&s=AMedNnoAAAAAUQHGlnP_b5jppjlFLN9OHRY5VSP2KZNR&sz=s220\"
...
/entry
Next Time I looked at the changelist
entry etag=\""CkUFR0sIQyt7ImBk"\"
id:...feeds/id/spreadsheet%3A0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGhZSVZ4UEtyT2tmRnZsR3lGNFBrVWc
published:2010-12-13T01:58:22.467Z
updated:2010-12-13T02:03:22.269Z
...
link:rel=\"thumbnail\" type=\"image/jpeg\" href=\"...?id=0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGhZSVZ4UEtyT2tmRnZsR3lGNFBrVWc&v=1&s=AMedNnoAAAAAUQMH4STQC7QSN1CJivPIl0U5KvMD8eKe&sz=s220\"
...
/entry
The only differences are the etag, updated time, and thumbnail image. The file itself did not change at all.
File 2 - This info I grabbed using the APIs explorer (using the DriveAPI 2 changes.get)
{
"kind": "drive#change",
"id": "21012",
"fileId": "0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGQyQUNjWkF0alVpNGd0WXNLMnpNU2c",
...
"thumbnailLink": ".../feeds/vt?gd=true&id=0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGQyQUNjWkF0alVpNGd0WXNLMnpNU2c&v=1&s=AMedNnoAAAAAUQlhSo3rF73K5WnN7E0qSR0uMhWEqM-t&sz=s220",
...
}
Ran through grabbing changes from the Documents List API, then checked the changelist again.
{
"kind": "drive#change",
"id": "21013",
"fileId": "0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGQyQUNjWkF0alVpNGd0WXNLMnpNU2c",
...
"thumbnailLink": ".../feeds/vt?gd=true&id=0AgVqS9FfzZOCdGQyQUNjWkF0alVpNGd0WXNLMnpNU2c&v=1&s=AMedNnoAAAAAUQlh69m8ZG_MzNujmmu80HN9XJ2jpG61&sz=s220",
...
}
In this case, the thumbnail link had again changed, and there was no longer a change with id 21012.