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Dennis Braga
Dennis Braga

Reputation: 1478

Could I know what has been changed lately in the file?

I'm doing some development and my company does use excel to edit database (I don't agree but, hey... hate the game, not the player! :D ). So, to avoid some encoding problems, I aiming to put it to Google Drive because it's very unlikely to change this sort of things the Microsoft insists in change every d**m version.

What I'm trying to do is: receive a file from Google Drive with only the fields that has been lately manipulated (or even receive the entire file, but somehow I could know the last changes), put it on a variable and manipulate it. I don't have the need to edit de excel file itself. It's going to be on Google Drive's interface. I only need to read it.

NOTE 1: I was using this doc (https://developers.google.com/drive/manage-changes) , but it appears that the API only says if either the file has been changed or not. I would be very nice if I could know what has been changed in the file. It would avoid me a overload in the database (I'll have to re-write the ENTIRE DATABASE).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 115

Answers (2)

peter
peter

Reputation: 312

It's impossible to retrieve field changes, but you can retrieve a change history by listing changes. https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/changes

Upvotes: 1

JunYoung Gwak
JunYoung Gwak

Reputation: 2987

You probably want to check Revision.

Google Drive provides file revision and you can get list of changes using this API

Upvotes: 1

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