Properties: list

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/fileId/properties

Parameters

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:

{
  "kind": "drive#propertyList",
  "etag": etag,
  "selfLink": string,
  "items": [
    properties Resource
  ]
}

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;
import com.google.api.services.drive.model.Property;
import com.google.api.services.drive.model.PropertyList;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /**
   * Retrieve a list of custom file properties.
   *
   * @param service Drive API service instance.
   * @param fileId ID of the file to retrieve properties for.
   * @return List of custom properties.
   */
  private static List<Property> retrieveProperties(Drive service, String fileId) {
    try {
      PropertyList properties = service.properties().list(fileId).execute();
      return properties.getItems();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("An error occurred: " + e);
    }

    return null;
  }

  // ...

}

using Google.Apis.Drive.v2;
using Google.Apis.Drive.v2.Data;

using System.Collections.Generic;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /// <summary>
  /// Retrieve a list of custom file properties.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="service">Drive API service instance.</param>
  /// <param name="fileId">ID of the file to retrieve properties for.</param>
  /// <returns>List of custom properties.</returns>
  public static IList<Property> RetrieveProperties(DriveService service, String fileId) {
    try {
      PropertyList properties = service.Properties.List(fileId).Execute();
      return properties.Items;
    } catch (Exception e) {
      Console.WriteLine("An error occurred: " + e.Message);
    }
    return null;
  }

  // ...

}

/**
 * Retrieve a list of custom file properties.
 *
 * @param Google_Service_Drive $service Drive API service instance.
 * @param String $fileId ID of the file to retrieve properties for.
 * @return Array List of custom properties.
 */
function retrieveProperties($service, $fileId) {
  try {
    $properties = $service->properties->listProperties($fileId);
    return $properties->getItems();
  } catch (Exception $e) {
    print "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
  }
  return NULL;
}

def retrieve_properties(service, file_id):
  """Retrieve a list of custom file properties.

  Args:
    service: Drive API service instance.
    file_id: ID of the file to retrieve properties for.
  Returns:
    List of custom properties.
  """
  try:
    props = service.properties().list(fileId=file_id).execute()
    return props.get('items', [])
  except errors.HttpError, error:
    print 'An error occurred: %s' % error
  return None

/**
 * Retrieve a list of custom file properties.
 *
 * @param {String} fileId ID of the file to retrieve properties for.
 * @param {Function} callback Function to call when the request is complete.
 */
function retrieveProperties(fileId, callback) {
  var request = gapi.client.drive.properties.list({
    'fileId': fileId
  });
  request.execute(function(resp) {
    callback(resp.items);
  });
}

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