Hi Maduranga, We'll consider those behavior in the future release of the connector. Please create a Jira.
@Malaka, Can you confirm it? Thanks, Vivek. Vivekananthan Sivanayagam Associate Software Engineer | WSO2 E:[email protected] M:+94752786138 On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Maduranga Siriwardena <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vivekananthan, > > Comparing the linux file operations, > > *cp -r in/ out/* > "in" folder is copied to the "out" folder and "in" folder will be inside > the "out" folder. > *cp in/* out/* > contents of the "in" folder is copied to the "out" folder and there will > be no "in" folder inside the "out" folder. This is similar to copy > operation in the connector when the source is a folder. > > *mv in/ out/* > "in" folder is moved to the "out" folder and "in" folder will be inside > the "out" folder. "in" folder is removed in the operation. > *mv in/* out/* > contents of the "in" folder is moved to the "out" folder and there will be > no "in" folder inside the "out" folder. After the operation "in" folder is > also there. > *mv in/aa.txt out/* > "aa.txt" file will be moved to the "out" folder. We don't need to specify > the destination file name. > *mv in/aa.txt out/aa.txt* > "aa.txt" file will be moved to the "out" folder. This is similar to the > file move operation in the connector. > > Please do consider the above mentioned linux file copy and move operations > and the connector behavior. > > Thanks, > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Vivekananthan Sivanayagam < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Maduranga, >> >> The basic behavior of the file/folder move operation is, once you move >> the file/folder from source to destination completely, the source >> file/folder will be deleted(Copy followed by Delete). If you want to keep >> the file/folder after moving to destination, you have to use the copy >> operation. >> >> If you want to move a file, you have to specify the destination as a >> file(with extension). If you need to just copy the file to the destination >> folder, here also you can use file copy operation(You don't need to mention >> the extension in the destination path). >> >> Thanks, >> Vivek >> >> Vivekananthan Sivanayagam >> Associate Software Engineer | WSO2 >> E:[email protected] >> M:+94752786138 <+94%2075%20278%206138> >> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Maduranga Siriwardena <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi Malaka, >>> >>> I tried this with Windows local file system. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Malaka Silva <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Maduranga, >>>> >>>> What is the file system / Protocol you tried this with? >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Maduranga Siriwardena < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Maduranga Siriwardena < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> While working with the file connector version 2 in [1], I noticed >>>>>> below limitations. >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. When moving a folder there is no way to move the contents of a >>>>>> folder without deleting the source folder. >>>>>> 2. When moving a file, if we specify a folder as a destination, >>>>>> this folder is converted to a file with the name of the source file >>>>>> (without the file extension). Shouldn't the file just copied to the >>>>>> destination folder? >>>>>> >>>>>> Destination folder is converted to a file with the destination folder >>>>> name (not with the name of the source file). >>>>> >>>>> Can these be done as improvements to the connector? >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] https://store.wso2.com/store/assets/esbconnector/details >>>>>> /48bab332-c6a6-4f5a-9b79-17e29c7ad4c6 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Maduranga Siriwardena >>>>>> Software Engineer >>>>>> WSO2 Inc; http://wso2.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Email: [email protected] >>>>>> Mobile: +94718990591 <+94%2071%20899%200591> >>>>>> Blog: http://madurangasblogs.blogspot.com/ >>>>>> <http://wso2.com/signature> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Maduranga Siriwardena >>>>> Software Engineer >>>>> WSO2 Inc; http://wso2.com/ >>>>> >>>>> Email: [email protected] >>>>> Mobile: +94718990591 <071%20899%200591> >>>>> Blog: http://madurangasblogs.blogspot.com/ >>>>> <http://wso2.com/signature> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> >>>> Malaka Silva >>>> Associate Director / Architect >>>> M: +94 777 219 791 <+94%2077%20721%209791> >>>> Tel : 94 11 214 5345 >>>> Fax :94 11 2145300 >>>> Skype : malaka.sampath.silva >>>> LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/malaka-silva/6/33/77 >>>> Blog : http://mrmalakasilva.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>>> WSO2, Inc. >>>> lean . enterprise . middleware >>>> https://wso2.com/signature >>>> http://www.wso2.com/about/team/malaka-silva/ >>>> <http://wso2.com/about/team/malaka-silva/> >>>> https://store.wso2.com/store/ >>>> >>>> Don't make Trees rare, we should keep them with care >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Maduranga Siriwardena >>> Software Engineer >>> WSO2 Inc; http://wso2.com/ >>> >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Mobile: +94718990591 <+94%2071%20899%200591> >>> Blog: http://madurangasblogs.blogspot.com/ >>> <http://wso2.com/signature> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Maduranga Siriwardena > Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc; http://wso2.com/ > > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +94718990591 <+94%2071%20899%200591> > Blog: http://madurangasblogs.blogspot.com/ > <http://wso2.com/signature> >
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