I have written the code which downloads the file from FTP server. Since I have my FTP server locally and I want to access like "ftp://localhost/alfresco". It was alfresco's FTP.
I have the following Code
public class FtpTransfer {
public static final void main(String[] args)
{
FTPClient ftp = new FTPClient();
FileOutputStream br = null;
try
{
ftp.connect("ftp://localhost/alfresco");
ftp.login("admin", "admin");
String file = "KPUB//Admin//TMM//Pickup//TMM_TO_ARTESIA_06152010220246.xml";
br = new FileOutputStream("file");
ftp.retrieveFile("/"+file, br);
System.out.println("Downloaded...");
}
catch(IOException exception) {
System.out.println("Error : "+exception);
}
}
}
The following exception occurs.
Error : java.net.UnknownHostException: ftp://localhost/alfresco
Please let me know how should I give the FTP Host Address?
Here is an example demonstrating connection to a server, changing present working directory, listing files in a directory and downloading a file to some specified directory.
package test;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.SocketException;
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient;
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPFile;
public class FtpTransfer {
public static final void main(String[] args) throws SocketException, IOException {
FTPClient ftp = new FTPClient();
ftp.connect("ftp.somedomain.com"); // or "localhost" in your case
System.out.println("login: "+ftp.login("username", "pass"));
ftp.changeWorkingDirectory("folder/subfolder/");
// list the files of the current directory
FTPFile[] files = ftp.listFiles();
System.out.println("Listed "+files.length+" files.");
for(FTPFile file : files) {
System.out.println(file.getName());
}
// lets pretend there is a JPEG image in the present folder that we want to copy to the desktop (on a windows machine)
ftp.setFileType(FTPClient.BINARY_FILE_TYPE); // don't forget to change to binary mode! or you will have a scrambled image!
FileOutputStream br = new FileOutputStream("C:\\Documents and Settings\\casonkl\\Desktop\\my_downloaded_image_new_name.jpg");
ftp.retrieveFile("name_of_image_on_server.jpg", br);
ftp.disconnect();
}
}
FTPClient f = new FTPClient();
f.connect("localhost");
f.login(username, password);
FTPFile[] files = listFiles(directory);
Also See
- Article from JavaWorld
- JavaDoc
Try remove protocol ("ftp://") from your url.
And please, look at the example.
The FTPClient.connect()
method takes the name of a server, not a URL. Try:
ftp.connect("localhost");
Also, you may need to put alfresco
somewhere else. If it's part of the file path,
String file = "alfresco/KPUB//Admin//TMM//Pickup//TMM_TO_ARTESIA_06152010220246.xml";