After quite a few searches for ways to FTP files in AX, I was happy to discover the WinInet class, which is more or less just a wrapper for the .DLL of the same name. I thought my problems were solved! I was not aware, however, that the class had a major Achilles heel -- it doesn't run in batch (on a server).
Can anybody point me in the right direction? Specifically, I want to upload (FTP put) a file to another server in a server-run batch job (running as a service user with admin rights to the file in question). Anybody?
There is another example of using .NET classes for FTP in Axaptapedia. It is different enough from 10p's example code to take a look...
In my own experience I ended up writing and then calling a bat file from the command line to pass in ftp commands as we needed to use a special FTP client! Here are two examples of using shell scripting - Net Time && Run a Process.
Use .NET classes in AX, e.g. following code logs into the FTP server and renames the file there:
str ftpHostName = 'ftp.microsoft.com'; // without "ftp://", only name
str username = 'myloginname';
str password = 'mypassword';
str oldname = 'oldfilename';
str newname = 'newfilename';
System.Net.Sockets.Socket socket;
System.Net.Dns dns;
System.Net.IPHostEntry hostEntry;
System.Net.IPAddress[] addresses;
System.Net.IPAddress address;
System.Net.IPEndPoint endPoint;
void sendCommand(str _command)
{
System.Text.Encoding ascii;
System.Byte[] bytes;
;
ascii = System.Text.Encoding::get_ASCII();
bytes = ascii.GetBytes(_command + '\r\n');
socket.Send(bytes, bytes.get_Length(), System.Net.Sockets.SocketFlags::None);
}
;
socket = new System.Net.Sockets.Socket(System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily::InterNetwork, System.Net.Sockets.SocketType::Stream, System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType::Tcp);
hostEntry = System.Net.Dns::GetHostEntry(ftpHostName);
addresses = hostEntry.get_AddressList();
address = addresses.GetValue(0);
info(address.ToString());
endPoint = new System.Net.IPEndPoint(address, 21);
socket.Connect(endPoint);
sendCommand(strfmt("USER %1", username));
sendCommand(strfmt("PASS %1", password));
sendCommand(strfmt("RNFR %1", oldname));
sendCommand(strfmt("RNTO %1", newname));
This is just an example but feel free to use any standard FTP command slightly mpdifying this code. Let me know if the concept is unclear.
