>I lost you. Are you saying that if I change the timestamp
>locally, it will re-upload?
<ftp> does a timestamp check. Only newer files are uploaded by default
("depends" or "newer" attribute).
If you "touch" a local file <ftp> will upload it, because it is now
newer than the one on the server.
>I don't understand where the hash
>comes into play. If I change the date, it's going to upload
>anyway. Does <modified> somehow compare MD5 hash of the file
>on the server to the MD5 hash of the file locally?
<modified> computes a hashvalue by the files content and creates a
local store of these values (absoluteFileName-HashValue hashtable).
It selects only files with a different hashvalue than stored. So the
timestamp is irrelevant.
I wrote that while I played with Apache Forrest (0.2 on that time)
and my html pages were re-generated each time ...
>If that is
>the case and the upload breaks, shouldn't it catch it as a
>non-equal hash the next time I run the ant script?
You could only delete the local cache ... and reload all.
Or you're investigating brain power and
- get the filename which failed
- delete the entry from the local store (property file)
>The problem is that it takes up to 6 hours to upload
>everything for a single project. I only want to upload what
>needs to be uploaded. I could do a "touch" of all the files
>locally and force upload of everything to guarantee that all
>the files are valid. But re-uploading 6 hours each time is
>just not practical when perhaps 95% of the files are still good.
I thought the same while writing <modified> ....
>I'm a java programmer. I'm willing to modify the ftp task to
>meet my needs if it's not a huge task. I just don't have the
>bandwidth to dive into a major undertaking, though. How easy
>would it be to modify the ftp task source?
Don't know ... have a look at the source ;-)
and ....
patches are welcome (with test+docs)
Jan
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
