With (Http) Servlets, you can use the implicit Session object to get the Context object. This allows you to get generic, statistical, or config information from the Servlet Container-info which is common to all Servlets.
Although FTPlets in an FtpletContainer are roughly analogous to Servlets in a ServletContainer, there is no method I see in the FtpSession class to get a pointer to the FtpletContainer or the Context object. I've read the javadoc and the source, and don't see any obvious method like that. >From within an Ftplet's on<Something> method (like: onUploadStart(), onUploadEnd(), onDownloadStart(), etc...), you have access to the FtpSession object associated with that Ftplet instance & thread. In fact, inside those onXXX() methods, you ONLY have access to the FtpSession and FtpRequest. But neither of these seem to allow a way to get the FtpletContainer. Am I wrong-is there a method for that in-scope within those Ftplet method bodies? I am only asking about it within the method bodies for the FTPlet onXXX() event-handler methods. That is the only place I need access to them. I know I could subclass DefaultFtplet, and give it an member variable to store a reference to the FtpContainer object it was added to-the only problem is: this may lead to disastrous thread issues. The same Ftplet instance is being used by multiple concurrent threads. So just as with Servlets, adding member variables to a Servlet class is ill-advised and problematic. So would be doing so to an Ftplet. Is there another way, already built-in, to get it? Specifically, from within Ftplet.onUploadEnd(), I need to obtain the CWD (current working directory) on FTPServer. In other words, what directory the client user just uploaded his file to. Is there another way to get that? I see so for the Client's filesystem---but nothing for the Server's filesystem.
