Dropbox

The Lyftron Provider for Dropbox offers the most natural way to access Dropbox data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing Dropbox data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Dropbox data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to Dropbox.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for Dropbox, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your Dropbox connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click Dropbox for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish Dropbox connection with Lyftron.

InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=[your_clientId];OAuthClientSecret=[your_client_secret];CallbackURL =[your_url];

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Dropbox connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The Lyftron Provider for Dropbox 2019 models Dropbox objects as relational tables and views. A Dropbox object has relationships to other objects; in the tables, these relationships are expressed through foreign keys. The following sections show the available API objects and provide more information on executing SQL to Dropbox APIs.

Schemas for most database objects are defined in simple, text-based configuration files.

The provider offloads as much of the SELECT statement processing as possible to the Dropbox APIs and then processes the rest of the query in memory. See SupportEnhancedSQL for more information on how the provider circumvents API limitations with in-memory client-side processing.

Views are composed of columns and pseudo columns. Views are similar to tables in the way that data is represented; however, views do not support updates. Entities that are represented as views are typically read-only entities. Queries can be executed against a view as if it were a normal table, and the data that comes back is similar in that regard.

Name	Type	Description
FileLinks	Views	Returns file links from a user's account.
FileRequests	Views	Returns file requests from a user's account.
Files	Views	Returns files from a user's account.
FolderLinks	Views	Returns folder links from a user's account.
Folders	Views	Returns folders from a user's account.
SharedFiles	Views	Returns shared files from a user's account.
SharedFolders	Views	Returns shared folders from a user's account.
SharedMembers	Views	Returns shared members from a shared file or folder.
Users	Views	Get information about multiple user accounts.