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Alternative to pending_upload when using sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings?
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The method [`sharing_create_shared_link` has a `pending_upload`](https://dropbox-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/dropbox.html#dropbox.dropbox_client.Dropbox.sharing_create_shared_link) argument which you can use to ask Dropbox to generate a url for a file or folder which is still in the process of being uploaded. If you do this and then use the link before the file is fully uploaded, you see a nice "This file cannot be previewed" UI, showing a zero-byte file. Once the file upload is complete, you can use the URL to share as you would any other generated URL.
This is fine, but `sharing_create_shared_link` is [marked as deprecated](https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/487793dff3c5a8a3a76010799dc4803cabdb70f3/dropbox/base.py#LL4546C9-L4546C9) and has been replaced by `sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings`. The new method doesn't have the `pending_upload` argument, nor does there seem to be any setting which you can pass in to get the same behavior.
So my question is: how do I get a shared link from a pending upload using non-deprecated API? I am not doing any uploading myself, I just have a script which generates shared links. So I can't do a zero-length upload because it could clobber the in-progress one which I have no control over.
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* What version of the SDK are you using? Python SDK 11.36.0
* What version of the language are you using? Python 3.9.6
* What platform are you using? macOS 12.6.6
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