Re: [platform-team-dev] Updates to FTPClient and Util to handle mainfram

[Steven M Cherry <smc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Michel,

I thought about doing a plugable parser implementation for you, but that
wouldn't have solved all of my problems.  Your default directory listing
command is "LIST -a", which is not supported by mainframe FTP servers.
So, instead of trying to do a plugable parser, /and/ a plugable list
command, I just did the quick and dirty add 2 new methods approach.

I'll submit through the bug system as you suggest.

Thanks,

Steven

> Hi Steven,
> One of the problems implementing an FTP client is that the spec for 
> listings is not well
> defined and varies a lot between FTP implementations. We had often thought 
> of adding 
> pluggable parsers to support the different FTP formats but never got 
> around to it. As a result, the
> best way to contribute your code would be to open a bug report against the 
> Team component
> and attach your patches.
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
> 
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> Steven M Cherry <smc@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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> Hi All,
> 
> My company is building an application on top of eclipse, and one of
> the things we need to be able to do is to make an FTP connection to
> a mainframe and browse the datasets and members via the FTP connection.
> I started using the org.eclipse.team.internal.ftp set of classes, but
> found that it didn't handle the mainframe FTP listings.  This didn't
> really surprize me as the listings are _very_ different from any 
> DOS or UNIX listing.
> 
> Anyway, long story short, I've added FTPClient.listFilesMVS(...) and
> Util.parseMVSLine(...) functions to the code set.  I'd like to submit
> these back to the group for review and possible inclusion in the
> base codeset.
> 
> What is the preferred form of contribution?  I've got a diff file
> that I can post here, or I can send the code, diffs, etc. to a 
> specific individual if that is better.  Just let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steven
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