Thanks Steve. Helpful to know that Default is UnixFTPEntryParser (this should really be in the javadoc if anyone from commons-dev is listening).
So part 2 of my question was: how do I decide which parser to use?
The javadoc for NTFTPEntryParser eludes to using FTPClient.getSystemName. Are there specific system name values
(or parts of the system name) that tell you to use a specific parser?
Or am I going to have to determine a parser via trial-and-error
and keep a mapping of hostname-to-parser? (yuck)
-Chris
Steve Cohen wrote:
Default is UnixFTPEntryParser. I don't know what's different about EnterpriseUnixFTPEntryParser, someone contributed that. The others are pretty straightforward, NT, OS2, VMS. No doubt there are others. If these don't fit your pattern, consider writing your own and contributing it. It's pretty straightforward, you can use the others as models, if you understand regular expressions.
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From: Chris Malley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:03 PM
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Subject: questions about FTP LIST processing (FTPFileListParser)
I'm writing an FTP client that makes heavy use of the 'LIST' command, and I'm operating in an enviroment that has a wide range of FTP server types. So the 'LIST' output is apt to vary. The answers to these questions have eluded me so far:
Which FTP servers does DefaultFTPFileListParser handle?
How do I decide when to use the various list parsers that are provided? (i.e., EnterpriseUnixFTPEntryParser, NTFTPEntryParser, OS2FTPEntryParser, UnixFTPEntryParser, VMSFTPEntryParser) Should I look
at FTPClient.getSystemName()?...
Thanks,
-Chris
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