Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Question regarding FTP scanner

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Moving to the "external application module" is good enough to get things 
working assuming you have a decent shell (you use linux - so you are ok 
there).

On Saturday 18 October 2003 08:44 am, David Glick wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Sorry, I didn't explain myself well.  I'll certainly integrate the newest
> commons net in when I get a chance.  The question was whether to integrate
> it into the 'go-live' version Babeldoc we're using on Production
> (1.1.8-dev).. We've fully tested on it, and therefore we won't be upgrading
> to the 'real' release until after go-live.  The FTP piece is pretty
> isolated, so if I can drop it into 1.1.8-dev and everything starts working,
> that 's a level of integration I can handle.  If it doesn't work, I don't
> know if I'll have time to troubleshoot it, so I may end up calling the ftp
> transfer as an 'external to Babeldoc' process just to get over this hump.
>
> Regardless, I will integrate it into the current Babeldoc (after I get a
> reasonable amount of sleep... :-)).
>
>
> David
>
> On Friday 17 October 2003 10:08 pm, Bruce McDonald wrote:
> > Integrate.  This is what we need to get babeldoc stable.  We can build
> > the future in 1.3.  Dejan, can you check if your application still works
> > with the new code.  Anyone else check please.
> >
> > Ps.  I will be doing a release tonight !prior!  to the
> >
> > On Friday 17 October 2003 07:57 pm, David Glick wrote:
> > > Thanks, Dejan.  I downloaded and tested the latest snapshot directly
> > > using the ftp example, and it worked like a charm.  Since I'm now on a
> > > tight deadline, I need to decide whether it will be easier to integrate
> > > the newest version back into Babeldoc, or just run it externally for my
> > > needs...
> > >
> > > Life is ALWAYS interesting at crunch time!
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > > On Friday 17 October 2003 3:15 pm, Dejan Krsmanovic wrote:
> > > > Hi David,
> > > > FtpScanner is using Jakarta Commons Net 1.0 package
> > > > (ex ORO Net Components 3.8.1) for ftp scannong. This
> > > > component was mad to work with Unix based servers and
> > > > you were supposed to implement support for other
> > > > servers. Since I needed to use it for MS FTP server I
> > > > have implement support for it.
> > > > AFAIK, Commons Net is improving and they have changed
> > > > the way how server listing is parsed, and also they
> > > > should support other systems (MS for example).
> > > > However, the code for that was not released yet but I
> > > > think it will be released very soon (actualy the
> > > > voting for Commons Net 1.1 relesase has already been
> > > > started on Jakarta's mailing list).
> > > >
> > > > So you have three options:
> > > > - Try to implement AS/400 support by yourself. You
> > > > need to parse your server's output to extract
> > > > filenames, etc  look at the code for
> > > > MsFtpFileListParser.
> > > > - wait for Commons Net 1.1
> > > > - use Commons Net CVS snapshot
> > > >
> > > > Note that  AS/400 might left unsupported by Commons
> > > > Net 1.1. Try to look at their CVS, there are parsers
> > > > for most systems...
> > > >
> > > > Dejan
> > > >
> > > > --- David Glick <dg...@co...> wrote:
> > > > > Gentlemen,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to set up the FtpScanner, but it is
> > > > > crashing.  The stack trace and
> > > > > config filre are shown below.  The stack trace show
> > > > > that MsFtpFileListParser
> > > > > was called,and the source code indicates that the
> > > > > FtpScanner has been
> > > > > optimized for Microsoft FTP.  Does the FtpScanner
> > > > > also work with
> > > > > non-Microsoft FTP servers?  The one I'm accessing is
> > > > > on an AS/400, but I've
> > > > > used manual FTP clients to it prevously without
> > > > > problems.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > David
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > === CONFIG.PROPERTIES ===
> > > > > #scan ftp site every 1 hour for files to place into
> > > > > the outbound pipeline
> > > > > ftpscan.type=ftp
> > > > > #ftpscan.period=3600000
> > > > > ftpscan.period=10000
> > > > > ftpscan.ftpHost=as400
> > > > > ftpscan.ftpUsername=AMUSER
> > > > > ftpscan.ftpPassword=XXXX  <== Sorry, I'd have to
> > > > > shoot you otherwise
> > > > > ftpscan.pipeline=test
> > > > > ftpscan.filter=EBPRDIMP.EBPRDRR
> > > > >
> > > > > === STACK TRACE ===
> > > > > <2003-10-17 12:44:02,550> ERROR [ftpscan] :
> > > > > [ScannerWorker.process] Error
> > > > > scanning...
> > > > > java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:
> > > > > "10/07/03"
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.
> > > >ja va
> > > >
> > > >:4 8)
> > > >:
> > > > >         at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:332)
> > > > >         at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:381)
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > com.babeldoc.scanner.worker.FtpScanner$1$MsFtpFileListParser.parseEnt
> > > >ry (U nk nown
> > > >
> > > > > Source)
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > com.babeldoc.scanner.worker.FtpScanner$1$MsFtpFileListParser.parseFil
> > > >eL is t( Unknown
> > > >
> > > > > Source)
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:1933)
> > > >
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:1964)
> > > >
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > com.babeldoc.scanner.worker.FtpScanner.processFtpFolder(Unknown
> > > >
> > > > > Source)
> > > > >         at
> > > >
> > > > com.babeldoc.scanner.worker.FtpScanner.doScan(Unknown
> > > >
> > > > > Source)
> > > > >         at
> > > > > com.babeldoc.scanner.ScannerWorker.process(Unknown
> > > > > Source)
> > > > >         at
> > > > > com.babeldoc.scanner.ScannerThread.run(Unknown
> > > > > Source)
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > David Glick
> > > > > Transmit Consulting, Inc
> > > > > 619-475-4052
> > > > > dg...@tr...
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