Also, have you looked into using Commons VFS to connect to your FTP server?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Rory Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carlo
>
> Depending on the server, using a glob expression in listFiles()
>
> ftpcl.listFiles("*.foo")
>
> may work, although it is not guaranteed.
>
> Rory
>
> Dell'Acqua, Carlo wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I'm using FTPClient to access a remote FTP server and get a subset of
>> files contained into its directory, the following is an exctract from my
>> code:
>> FTPClient ftpcl = new FTPClient();
>> ftpcl.connect(remotehost);
>> if(!FTPReply.isPositiveCompletion(ftpcl.getReplyCode())) {
>> // ERROR
>> }
>> if(!ftpcl.login(remoteuser, remotepassword)) {
>> // ERROR
>> }
>> ftpcl.noop();
>> if(!ftpcl.changeWorkingDirectory(remotedir)) {
>> // ERROR
>> }
>> FTPListParseEngine engine = ftpcl.initiateListParsing();
>> while (engine.hasNext()) {
>> FTPFile[] files = engine.getNext(50); for(FTPFile file : files) {
>> if(fileOK(file)) {
>> FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream( dst );
>> if(!ftpcl.retrieveFile( file.getName(), fos )) {
>> // ERROR
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> The problem is that on remote directory there are a lot of files that I
>> don't need to download (they have a different file name from the file I
>> need to download); until now I have used my method fileOK(FTPFile) to
>> check each file returned by initiateListParsing();
>> so my question is: is it possible to filter the file returned by
>> initiateListParsing() using a regular expression ?
>> Thanks in advance and Best Regards.
>>
>>
>
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