On 26 March 2012 15:23, Thufir <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/26/2012 06:06 AM, sebb wrote: >> >> Try NNTPClient.retrieveArticle(long articleNumber, ArticleInfo >> pointer) and NNTPClient.retrieveArticle(long articleNumber) > > > Both of those return with MalformedServerReplyException for me, as before. > > I notice that Article API says, about Article, that: > > This is a class that contains the basic state needed for message retrieval > and threading. With thanks to Jamie Zawinski > https://commons.apache.org/net/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/net/nntp/Article.html > > So, the message body is not in the Article, I don't think.
I did not write that it was. > Maybe I'm > misunderstanding the docs. My reading is that some variant of > NNTPClient.retrieveBody will return the body. Yes. > However, there's a note that: > > "A DotTerminatedMessageReader is returned from which the article can be > read. If the article does not exist, null is returned. > > You must not issue any commands to the NNTP server (i.e., call any other > methods) until you finish reading the message from the returned > BufferedReader instance. The NNTP protocol uses the same stream for issuing > commands as it does for returning results. Therefore the returned > BufferedReader actually reads directly from the NNTP connection. After the > end of message has been reached, new commands can be executed and their > replies read. If you do not follow these requirements, your program will not > work properly. " > > throughout the NNTPClient documentation, for many methods. > > That being said, there are zero examples of retrieving the message body. > Maybe it's a completely different approach then retrieving Articles? As I already wrote, use NNTPClient.retrieveArticle(long articleNumber). I tried using it with news.gmane.org and it worked fine. See the sample app I created recently: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/net/trunk/src/main/java/examples/nntp/ArticleReader.java This will be added to the site when it is next updated. > > -Thufir > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
