Yes, I wrote the changes to commons-net several months ago. NetComponents only had support for unix ftp systems, with some documentation about how to "roll your own" i.e. write your own implementations of their interface. Not very suitable for ant.
One developer wrote some simple parsers and I enhanced these. You can find the different parsers in the package org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser. However, be careful with the documentation, especially the documentation under the class org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.NTFTPEntryParser. The "usage" section there seems to be a bit out of date. There is more up to date documentation in the javadoc comment in the file org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.java, under the method createFileList(FTPFileEntryParser parser). For some reason I do not understand, this usage information did not make it into the javadoc that is actually displayed on the commons-net javadoc site. Basically, as I see it, the ant task would be rewritten to allow specification of the system types. It would decode this attribute to allow a FTPFileEntryParser object to be instantiated, and then use that object as described in this documentation. Frankly, it would be a wonderful thing if the ant-user community found other types of FTP systems not supported or incorrectly supported in commons-net and then commons-net could be updated with even better support. I would be happy to volunteer for this task myself, except that at the moment I am about to be unemployed and may or may not have a job right away. If I do not, this might be a good way to spend my time in between interviews and pounding the pavement looking for work. If I get a new job soon, I may not have time. But at least I have moved my subscription to this list away from my work email address and will be able to follow the discussions from home. -----Original Message----- From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:21 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: AW: bug fixes!! WAS: ant 1.6beta3 released Hi Steve, can you explain what needs to be done to take advantage of what commons-net is doing ? do we not get it automatically ? BTW I have tested the ftp task in ant1.6 against 3 sorts of ftp servers (GNU Inetutils, Hummingbird, FreeBSD). Not against a Microsoft ftp server. Cheers, Antoine -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 16:14 An: Ant Developers List Betreff: RE: bug fixes!! WAS: ant 1.6beta3 released There are improvements to commons-net over the old NetComponents to handle Windows FTP servers. However, the ant tasks would need to be recoded to take advantage of these. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bug fixes!! WAS: ant 1.6beta3 released On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Filip Hanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > 3. FTP - I have a file parser for Windows FTP servers, modified the > FTP task to take a parameter for which OS the FTP server is. Even > better would be if it could auto detect. I'm not sure, maybe commons-net can already do that? I'd prefer to see fixes in that area to go upstreams so that all customers of commons-net can take advantage of them. <snip> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
