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Trashed Folder

Represents a trashed folder.

string
123456789

The unique identifier that represent a folder.

The ID for any folder can be determined by visiting a folder in the web application and copying the ID from the URL. For example, for the URL https://*.app.box.com/folders/123 the folder_id is 123.

string
folder

folder

Value is always folder

string (date-time)
2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00

The date and time at which this folder was originally created.

string (date-time)
2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00

The date and time at which this folder was last updated.

string (date-time)
2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00

The date and time when the folder was created. This value may be null for some folders such as the root folder or the trash folder.

The user who created this folder

Legal contracts for the new ACME deal256

The optional description of this folder

string
1

The HTTP etag of this folder. This can be used within some API endpoints in the If-Match and If-None-Match headers to only perform changes on the folder if (no) changes have happened.

The folder upload email for this folder. This will be null if a folder has been trashed, since the upload will no longer work.

trashed

Defines if this item has been deleted or not.

  • active when the item has is not in the trash
  • trashed when the item has been moved to the trash but not deleted
  • deleted when the item has been permanently deleted.

Value is one of active,trashed,deleted

string (date-time)
2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00

The date and time when the folder was last updated. This value may be null for some folders such as the root folder or the trash folder.

The user who last modified this folder.

string
Contracts

The name of the folder.

The user who owns this folder.

The optional folder that this folder is located within.

This value may be null for some folders such as the root folder or the trash folder.

The tree of folders that this file is contained in, starting at the root.

Array of folders for this item's path collection

123456789

The unique identifier that represent a folder.

folder

folder

Value is always folder

This field is null for the Trash folder

Trash

The name of the Trash folder.

This field is null for the Trash folder

1

The number of folders in this list.

string (date-time)
2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00

The time at which this folder is expected to be purged from the trash.

3

A numeric identifier that represents the most recent user event that has been applied to this item.

This can be used in combination with the GET /events-endpoint to filter out user events that would have occurred before this identifier was read.

An example would be where a Box Drive-like application would fetch an item via the API, and then listen to incoming user events for changes to the item. The application would ignore any user events where the sequence_id in the event is smaller than or equal to the sequence_id in the originally fetched resource.

integer (int64)
629644

The folder size in bytes.

Be careful parsing this integer as its value can get very large.

string (date-time)
2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00

The time at which this folder was put in the trash.

Response Example

{
  "id": "123456789",
  "type": "folder",
  "content_created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "content_modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "created_by": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "user",
    "login": "ceo@example.com",
    "name": "Aaron Levie"
  },
  "description": "Legal contracts for the new ACME deal",
  "etag": "1",
  "folder_upload_email": "null",
  "item_status": "trashed",
  "modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "modified_by": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "user",
    "login": "ceo@example.com",
    "name": "Aaron Levie"
  },
  "name": "Contracts",
  "owned_by": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "user",
    "login": "ceo@example.com",
    "name": "Aaron Levie"
  },
  "parent": {
    "id": "12345",
    "type": "folder",
    "etag": "1",
    "name": "Contracts",
    "sequence_id": "3"
  },
  "path_collection": {
    "entries": [
      {
        "type": "folder",
        "id": "123456789",
        "sequence_id": "null",
        "etag": "null",
        "name": "Trash"
      }
    ],
    "total_count": 1
  },
  "purged_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "sequence_id": "3",
  "shared_link": "null",
  "size": 629644,
  "trashed_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00"
}