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    Dropbox V1 Connector Configuration Reference

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    The Dropbox connector retrieves data from a Dropbox cloud-based data repository.

    V1 deprecation and removal notice

    Starting in Fusion 5.12.0, all V1 connectors are deprecated. This means they are no longer being actively developed and will be removed in Fusion 5.13.0.

    The replacement for this connector is in active development at this time and will be released at a future date.

    If you are using this connector, you must migrate to the replacement connector or a supported alternative before upgrading to Fusion 5.13.0. We recommend migrating to the replacement connector as soon as possible to avoid any disruption to your workflows.

    To fetch content from Dropbox, you must have an OAuth token accessible to the crawler so it can properly authenticate.

    If you want to crawl all of the files owned by the account, you can simply use / as the startLink.

    The startLink for a folder is its share link:

    • In the Dropbox Web UI, navigate to the folder and then to Share Folder > Share with Dropbox > Create Link (or Copy Link if the link has already been created).

    • In the Dropbox integration for the Finder in OS X , select the folder, right-click, and select Copy Dropbox Link.

    Configuration

    When entering configuration values in the UI, use unescaped characters, such as \t for the tab character. When entering configuration values in the API, use escaped characters, such as \\t for the tab character.

    Connector for Dropbox file storage. To use this connector, you must first register an application with access to the Dropbox API via http://www.dropbox.com/developers.

    id - stringrequired

    Unique name for this datasource.

    >= 1 characters

    Match pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$

    pipeline - stringrequired

    Name of an existing index pipeline for processing documents.

    >= 1 characters

    description - string

    Optional description for this datasource.

    parserId - string

    Parser used when parsing raw content. For some connectors, a configuration to 'retry' parsing if an error occurs is available as an advanced setting

    properties - Properties

    Datasource configuration properties

    startLinks - array[string]

    To crawl all of the files owned by the account, simply add ‘/’ as the start link; otherwise, use a path to the specific files or directories that you want to crawl, e.g., https://www.dropbox.com/home/Test_files/test_basic_crawl

    db - Connector DB

    Type and properties for a ConnectorDB implementation to use with this datasource.

    type - string

    Fully qualified class name of ConnectorDb implementation.

    >= 1 characters

    Default: com.lucidworks.connectors.db.impl.MapDbConnectorDb

    inlinks - boolean

    Keep track of incoming links. This negatively impacts performance and size of DB.

    Default: false

    aliases - boolean

    Keep track of original URI-s that resolved to the current URI. This negatively impacts performance and size of DB.

    Default: false

    inv_aliases - boolean

    Keep track of target URI-s that the current URI resolves to. This negatively impacts performance and size of DB.

    Default: false

    dedupe - boolean

    If true, documents will be deduplicated. Deduplication can be done based on an analysis of the content, on the content of a specific field, or by a JavaScript function. If neither a field nor a script are defined, content analysis will be used.

    Default: false

    dedupeField - string

    Field to be used for dedupe. Define either a field or a dedupe script, otherwise the full raw content of each document will be used.

    dedupeScript - string

    Custom javascript to dedupe documents. The script must define a 'genSignature(content){}' function, but can use any combination of document fields. The function must return a string.

    dedupeSaveSignature - boolean

    If true,the signature used for dedupe will be stored in a 'dedupeSignature_s' field. Note this may cause errors about 'immense terms' in that field.

    Default: false

    delete - boolean

    Set to true to remove documents from the index when they can no longer be accessed as unique documents.

    Default: true

    deleteErrorsAfter - integer

    Number of fetch failures to tolerate before removing a document from the index. The default of -1 means no fetch failures will be removed.

    Default: -1

    fetchThreads - integer

    The number of threads to use during fetching. The default is 5.

    Default: 5

    emitThreads - integer

    The number of threads used to send documents from the connector to the index pipeline. The default is 5.

    Default: 5

    chunkSize - integer

    The number of items to batch for each round of fetching. A higher value can make crawling faster, but memory usage is also increased. The default is 1.

    Default: 1

    fetchDelayMS - integer

    Number of milliseconds to wait between fetch requests. The default is 0. This property can be used to throttle a crawl if necessary.

    Default: 0

    refreshAll - boolean

    Set to true to always recrawl all items found in the crawldb.

    Default: true

    refreshStartLinks - boolean

    Set to true to recrawl items specified in the list of start links.

    Default: false

    refreshErrors - boolean

    Set to true to recrawl items that failed during the last crawl.

    Default: false

    refreshOlderThan - integer

    Number of seconds to recrawl items whose last fetched date is longer ago than this value.

    Default: -1

    refreshIDPrefixes - array[string]

    A prefix to recrawl all items whose IDs begin with this value.

    refreshIDRegexes - array[string]

    A regular expression to recrawl all items whose IDs match this pattern.

    refreshScript - string

    A JavaScript function ('shouldRefresh()') to customize the items recrawled.

    forceRefresh - boolean

    Set to true to recrawl all items even if they have not changed since the last crawl.

    Default: false

    forceRefreshClearSignatures - boolean

    If true, signatures will be cleared if force recrawl is enabled.

    Default: true

    retryEmit - boolean

    Set to true for emit batch failures to be retried on a document-by-document basis.

    Default: true

    depth - integer

    Number of levels in a directory or site tree to descend for documents.

    Default: -1

    maxItems - integer

    Maximum number of documents to fetch. The default (-1) means no limit.

    Default: -1

    failFastOnStartLinkFailure - boolean

    If true, when Fusion cannot connect to any of the provided start links, the crawl is stopped and an exception logged.

    Default: true

    crawlDBType - string

    The type of crawl database to use, in-memory or on-disk.

    Default: on-disk

    Allowed values: in-memoryon-disk

    commitAfterItems - integer

    Commit the crawlDB to disk after this many items have been received. A smaller number here will result in a slower crawl because of commits to disk being more frequent; conversely, a larger number here will cause a resumed job after a crash to need to recrawl more records.

    Default: 10000

    initial_mapping - Initial field mapping

    Provides mapping of fields before documents are sent to an index pipeline.

    skip - boolean

    Set to true to skip this stage.

    Default: false

    label - string

    A unique label for this stage.

    <= 255 characters

    condition - string

    Define a conditional script that must result in true or false. This can be used to determine if the stage should process or not.

    reservedFieldsMappingAllowed - boolean

    Default: false

    retentionMappings - array[object]

    Fields that should be kept or deleted

    Default:

    object attributes:{field required : {
     display name: Field
     type: string
    }
    operation : {
     display name: Operation
     type: string
    }
    }

    updateMappings - array[object]

    Values that should be added to or set on a field. When a value is added, any values previously on the field will be retained. When a value is set, any values previously on the field will be overwritten.

    Default:

    object attributes:{field required : {
     display name: Field
     type: string
    }
    value required : {
     display name: Value
     type: string
    }
    operation : {
     display name: Operation
     type: string
    }
    }

    translationMappings - array[object]

    Fields that should be moved or copied to another field. When a field is moved, the values from the source field are moved over to the target field and the source field is removed. When a field is copied, the values from the source field are copied over to the target field and the source field is retained.

    Default: {"source":"charSet","target":"charSet_s","operation":"move"}{"source":"fetchedDate","target":"fetchedDate_dt","operation":"move"}{"source":"lastModified","target":"lastModified_dt","operation":"move"}{"source":"signature","target":"dedupeSignature_s","operation":"move"}{"source":"length","target":"length_l","operation":"move"}{"source":"mimeType","target":"mimeType_s","operation":"move"}{"source":"parent","target":"parent_s","operation":"move"}{"source":"owner","target":"owner_s","operation":"move"}{"source":"group","target":"group_s","operation":"move"}

    object attributes:{source required : {
     display name: Source Field
     type: string
    }
    target required : {
     display name: Target Field
     type: string
    }
    operation : {
     display name: Operation
     type: string
    }
    }

    unmappedRule - Unmapped Fields

    Fields not mapped by the above rules. By default, any remaining fields will be kept on the document.

    keep - boolean

    Keep all unmapped fields

    Default: true

    delete - boolean

    Delete all unmapped fields

    Default: false

    fieldToMoveValuesTo - string

    Move all unmapped field values to this field

    fieldToCopyValuesTo - string

    Copy all unmapped field values to this field

    valueToAddToUnmappedFields - string

    Add this value to all unmapped fields

    valueToSetOnUnmappedFields - string

    Set this value on all unmapped fields

    f.maxSizeBytes - integer

    Maximum size (in bytes) of documents to fetch or -1 for unlimited file size.

    Default: 4194304

    f.minSizeBytes - integer

    Minimum size, in bytes, of documents to fetch.

    Default: 0

    f.addFileMetadata - boolean

    Set to true to add information about documents found in the filesystem to the document, such as document owner, group, or ACL permissions.

    Default: true

    f.index_items_discarded - boolean

    Enable to index discarded document metadata

    Default: false

    aliasExpiration - integer

    The number of crawls after which an alias will expire. The default is 1 crawl.

    Default: 1

    excludeExtensions - array[string]

    File extensions that should not to be fetched. This will limit this datasource to all extensions except this list.

    excludeRegexes - array[string]

    Regular expressions for URI patterns to exclude. This will limit this datasource to only URIs that do not match the regular expression.

    includeExtensions - array[string]

    File extensions to be fetched. This will limit this datasource to only these file extensions.

    includeRegexes - array[string]

    Regular expressions for URI patterns to include. This will limit this datasource to only URIs that match the regular expression.

    reevaluateCrawlDBOnStart - boolean

    Reevaluate exisiting crawldb entries for legality on startup?

    Default: false

    restrictToTree - boolean

    If true, only documents found in a tree below the start links will be fetched. By default, this means limiting the crawl to the domain of the start links. For example, if the start link is 'http://host.com/US' then only links to the 'host.com' domain will be followed. Further options are available for modifying this behavior.

    Default: true

    retainOutlinks - boolean

    Set to true for links found during fetching to be stored in the crawldb. This increases precision in certain recrawl scenarios, but requires more memory and disk space.

    Default: false

    f.fs.oAuthAccessToken - string

    Dropbox OAuth Token for the registered application.

    f.fs.connect_timeout - integer

    The connection timeout is the timeout in making the initial connection; i.e. completing the TCP connection handshake.

    Default: 60000

    f.fs.read_timeout - integer

    The read timeout is the timeout on waiting to read data. Specifically, if the server fails to send a byte <timeout> seconds after the last byte, a read timeout error will be raised.

    Default: 60000

    rewriteLinkScript - string

    A Javascript function 'rewriteLink(link) { }' to modify links to documents before they are fetched.

    diagnosticMode - boolean

    Enable to print more detailed information to the logs about each request.

    Default: false