Re: deleting files with a camel-ftp endpoint

[Lorrin Nelson]

FWIW, it just took a couple lines to hack SftpOperations.storeFile to have this 
behavior. Not sure this is the right place for it though. Shall I submit an 
official patch?

@@ -493,6 +493,10 @@ public class SftpOperations implements 
RemoteFileOperations<ChannelSftp.LsEntry>
 
         InputStream is = null;
         try {
+            //interpret null body as request to delete teh file.
+            if (exchange.getIn().getBody() == null) {
+                return deleteFile(name);
+            }
             is = ExchangeHelper.getMandatoryInBody(exchange, 
InputStream.class);
             if (endpoint.getFileExist() == GenericFileExist.Append) {
                 channel.put(is, name, ChannelSftp.APPEND);


On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Lorrin Nelson wrote:

> Is this possible? I don't see anything indicating how in the docs.
> 
> I wonder if would be easy to interpret a null message body as a request to 
> delete the target file?
> 
> Right now a null body results in:
> org.apache.camel.InvalidPayloadException: No body available of type: 
> java.io.InputStream on: Message: [Body is null].
> Caused by: No type converter available to convert from type: null to the 
> required type: java.io.InputStream with value null. Exchange[Message: [Body 
> is null]]. 
> Caused by: [org.apache.camel.NoTypeConversionAvailableException - No type 
> converter available to convert from type: null to the required type: 
> java.io.InputStream with value null]
> 
> -Lorrin