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Posted by Kelly Shuster
Kelly Shuster
10,343 Points

ParseFile creation in Ribbit App

I'm having trouble in the Ribbit app with my ParseFile.

I go through the steps to create the ParseFile, and get no errors. However, when I attempt to retrieve my ParseFile, the returned value for the file is "null".

I can see my 'file' getting added in a data column on Parse, but the type is listed as String.

I am wondering if this is part of the issue; retrieving the file returns null because Parse can't actually find a file to send back. However, this means there is something wrong with my ParseFile creation, but I just can't seem to find it.

Anyone else see this?

Jason Woolard
Jason Woolard
11,563 Points

I haven't encountered that issue specifically, but if you have code you'd like me to look at I could help debug the issue.

Kelly Shuster
Kelly Shuster
10,343 Points

Jason, thank you so much for the offer! I just was re-reading my code, and found that when adding the Parse File, I wrote this:

message.put(ParseConstants.KEY_FILE, fileName);

Instead of this:

message.put(ParseConstants.KEY_FILE, file);

D'oh! No wonder it was uploading a string instead of the file! :)

1 Answer

Jason Woolard
Jason Woolard
11,563 Points

Doh! That'll do it. No problem, have fun!