FTPBean

Classic Servoy
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I am now checking out this ftp bean and have connected to an internal ftp site using Johan’s code snippet given in another thread under ‘Methods’ with no problem - hooray !

Can anyone point me to some documentation outlining the arguments which need to be passed to the bean for some operations ?

For example : putBinaryFile(String, String, number, FtpObserver)

I have no idea what an ‘ftpobserver’ is nor what the ‘number’ refers to !

I am assuming that the required strings are source and location for the file - but I may be wrong !?

Cheers

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Harry,

The best place for bean documentation is from the place that you got the bean from in the first place.

From entering the string you are having a hard time with into Google I found the bean, and then by opening the FTPbean.java file with a text editor (like it says to on the website to see the latest revisions) - I found the author’s email address. Here’s part of the header info in that file:

/*

  • FtpBean Version 1.4.4
  • Copyright 1999 Calvin Tai
  • E-mail: calvin_tai2000@yahoo.com.hk
  • URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/ … an/ftpbean
  • COPYRIGHT NOTICE
  • Copyright 1999 Calvin Tai All Rights Reserved.
  • FtpBean may be modified and used in any application free of charge by
  • anyone so long as this copyright notice and the comments above remain
  • intact. By using this code you agree to indemnify Calvin Tai from any
  • liability that might arise from it’s use.
  • Selling the code for this java bean alone is expressly forbidden.
  • In other words, please ask first before you try and make money off of
  • this java bean as a standalone application.
  • Obtain permission before redistributing this software over the Internet or
  • in any other medium. In all cases copyright and header must remain intact.
    */

Hope this helps,

Bob Cusick

3

Thanks for the assist, Bob.

I will certainly follow this lead up as I downloaded the bean from a direct link posted into an earlier topic thread under ‘Methods’ forum.

I think what I am also asking is whether there is a standard object naming reference for a ‘FTPObserver’ and thus it may not only be bean documentation but ‘FTP’ process itself that I need to understand more about !

For reference, I did play about with the putBinaryFile() command and got it to work by omitting the ‘Number’ & ‘FTPObserver’ arguments and simply telling it where the file is and where it was going !!

Thanks

Harry

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Whilst I do not fully understand the difference between a ‘bean’ and a ‘plugin’ I am interested to know what the relative pros and cons are between using one or the other.

Thus if I have a both a Plugin and a Bean to handle FTP both of which have the same properties available, which one should I use !??

Also does anyone know if there is an FTP Plugin available for Servoy ?

Harry

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From my previous post :

Also does anyone know if there is an FTP Plugin available for Servoy ?

The operative question is : can somebody recommend a FTP plugin from those obviously available !!

Cheers
Harry

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a bean is most of the time a GUI component that you can drop on the form surface. That doesn’t know anything of servoy.
A plugin is specially written for servoy, and knows all the ins and outs. It can talk back ect.
A plugin can be much more complex then most beans.

For a ftp thing it would be much nicer to have a plugin then a bean. This way it can integrate much better and talk back when it is done (sending and loading of files can be threaded, happening in the background).

But someone with a bit of java know how must write the plugin.