How to Check whether the file in the Ftpserver is a directory or not?

[yathish Gatty]

Hi,
I am trying to ftp a ftp server using the ftpclient library 'ameobacode'.I am able to get the names of files and directory on the remote server.But I am not able to determine whether it is a directory or not.
The names of files is Array of string.

Please suggest a method to determine this.

[Stephen Huey]

I took a look at the API:
http://www.amoebacode.com/ftp/javadoc/com/amoebacode/ftp/FTPClient.html

Unless my eyes are foggy, I don't see a way to do it (unless you want to try changing directories to everyone of the names in the file list and see if it lets you go there).

I use the Apache Commons FTPClient, and you can do it with that:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/apidocs/org/apache/commons/net/ftp/FTPClient.html

Just call their listFiles() method, and you'll get an array of FTPFile objects. The FTPFile class has the method isDirectory() as you can see here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/apidocs/org/apache/commons/net/ftp/FTPFile.html

[yathish Gatty]

Thanks for the help Stephen.

I tried using commons.net library.But I got exceptions.Please help me with this.The code I have written is below.

import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.*;
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient;
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPFile;


public class MyFTP {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String user="user-name";
String psw="password";
String server="134.238.198.12";
String directory="/lic";
try {
FTPClient f= new FTPClient();
f.connect(server);
f.login(user, psw);
System.out.print(f.getReplyString());

/************* this does not work *************/

FTPFile[] files = f.listFiles();
for(int i=0;i< files.length;i++){
System.out.println("files:" + files[i].getName());
}//end of for loop

/************* up to this *************/

System.out.println();
f.disconnect();

}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Error:"+e);
}

}//end of function

}

}

These are the exception I got:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/oro/text/regex/MalformedPatternException
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.createUnixFTPEntryParser(DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.java:121)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.createFileEntryParser(DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.java:84)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.initiateListParsing(FTPClient.java:2306)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2055)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2106)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2146)
at MyFTP.main(MyFTP.java:23)
Exception in thread "main"


Thank you.

[Christian Schnobeladish]

Hi Greenhorn !

I received the same error as you. There is a missing library in your project: the Jakarta Oro library. You can download it on the Jakarta web site.

I added it and I hava now another stacktrace during the listFile execution :
java.io.IOException: Host attempting data connection 10.10.1.131 is not same as server 10.10.1.130
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient._openDataConnection_(FTPClient.java:508)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.initiateListParsing(FTPClient.java:2335)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.initiateListParsing(FTPClient.java:2309)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2055)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2106)
at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2146)

If somebody has any idea about how to correct it ...