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that it now looks approximately right.
>> Reinhardt Christiansen wrote:
>> Can anyone help me with the Ant optional ftp task? I'm finally using
Ant
>> again for the first time in a couple of years and running into some
>> problems.
>> I'm using Ant 1.7.0 and my build is basically working fine, aside from
>> some issues with the ftp task. My mkdir and send actions are working
>> fine so I know that this is not an installation issue, such as missing
>> jars. the usual thing that breaks FTP is a weird directory listing
at the far end.
> What server/language are you using and what does a listing look like?
(we do warn about this at the top of the task, but maybe the language
> there could be clearer)
What do you mean when you ask for the server/language? I don't
understand the question. Are you asking for the hostname? The operating
system? And how can I determine the answer? My friend uses a hosting
service for his private files and he's given me a bit of play space for
a project I'm doing; that's where I'm trying to send the files. I
currently use SmartFTP 3.0 to upload/download from the server and it
works fine as an interactive tool. I'm simply trying to write some Ant
scripts to automate some of the more repetitive tasks that I need to do.
I'm not sure what O/S this server is running but I chose "Show Raw
Listing" in SmartFTP and it gave me this for one small directory
containing a single file and a folder:
drwxr-xr-x 3 sfl pg598770 4096 May 22 06:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 sfl pg598770 4096 Jun 8 07:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 sfl pg598770 6546 May 22 07:49 150.css
drwxr-xr-x 2 sfl pg598770 4096 May 22 07:37 media
This looks like some form of Unix/Linux but I'm not sure how to tell the
exact O/S if that's what you're asking. Does this answer your question?
If not, please tell me where to get the information to answer it.
>> Here are my problems:
>> 1. I keep getting a MalformedPatternException when I try to do an ftp
>> with action="list". It seems to be objecting to the listing
>> parameter. I have tried all the variations I can imagine but
>> nothing works. could be the response from the far end. Try running
at -debug and posting the relevant output as a bug report.
>> 2. My action="send" operations work fine as long as I omit the
>> depends="yes" parameter. When I include depends="yes", I get
>> MalformedPatternException on the line containing the remotedir
>> parameter.
> Same game. Its trying to parse the date at the far end and failing.
What date? There's no date in the Ant script.
Or do you mean data?
>> Also, with respect to the listing parameter of action="list", can
>> someone please clarify whether the file identified in the listing
>> parameter is on the server or the remote machine? The documentation is
>> not clear on this point. I've looked on both machines and can't find
the
>> file on either one; it would save me a bit of time if I knew I didn't
>> have to look on one of the two machines.
> remotedir: base directory from which files are listed
> fileset: the remote files located under the remotedir matching the
include/exclude patterns of the fileset so, the nested files are the
things to list.
That's not really what I was asking. If the file named in the listing
parameter is called xyz.txt, where will xyz.txt appear: on my local
computer or on the remote computer? And _where_ on that computer will it
appear? The root directory? Or some other directory? If it's not going
to appear in the root, how can I determine where it will appear?
> -steve -- Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/
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Rhino
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