BoxCollaboration model missing available fields in AccessibleBy

[Trevor DeBardeleben]

• I have checked that the [SDK documentation][sdk-docs] doesn't solve my issue.
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Description of the Issue

When viewing a collaboration, the AccessibleBy attribute does not contain "name" or "login" even though these are returned in the API response.

var collabs = await client.CollaborationsManager. GetCollaborationAsync("123")
foreach(var c an collabs.Entries)
{
    Console.WriteLine(c.AccessibleBy.Name); // Name should be available here but is not 
}

Change Requested

Update the BoxCollaboration data model to include Name and Login as AccessibleBy fields.

[Artur Jankowski]

Hi @trevordebard,

Collaboration can be a BoxUser or a BoxGroup, and for this reason, the AccessibleBy field of the BoxCollaboration object is of type BoxEntity, so as not to violate this constraint.

To access the value of this field, we can check its current type and cast the object accordingly, for example using pattern matching as shown in the following example:

  var collabs = await userClient.CollaborationsManager.GetCollaborationAsync("123"); 
  if (collabs.AccessibleBy is BoxUser user)
  {
      Console.WriteLine("userID:{0}, name:{1}, login:{2}", user.Id, user.Name, user.Login);
  }
  else if (collabs.AccessibleBy is BoxGroup group)
  {
      Console.WriteLine("groupID:{0}, groupName: {1}", group.Id, group.Name);
  }

Does this solve your problem?

[Trevor DeBardeleben]

Thank you @arjankowski! It makes sense why it was set up that way now, and this resolves my issue. Thank you!