On 9 January 2012 18:27, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've wanted to do this in the past as well, but I do not see how to do
> it without a new API that takes in a listener.

FileUtils.copyURLToFile uses IOUtils.copy(InputStream input,
OutputStream output)  to do the actual copy, so perhaps you could wrap
one of the streams in a Counting Stream or Proxy Stream.

> Gary
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> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Smig <smi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm using this method to download a set of files:
>> FileUtils.copyURLToFile(url,file);
>>
>> I found this to be much faster than the usual writing of bytes to a stream.
>>
>> However, I ran into a problem. By using this method, I lost the ability to
>> track the progress and give feedback to the user.
>>
>> If I'm downloading a large file, there's no way of knowing if it's close to
>> finishing or even if it's downloading at all.
>>
>> Is there any way to get this information to update a JProgressBar?
>>
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