Archive for August, 2010

Flex FTP Make Directory

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

I'm messing around with Flex FTP at the moment and found that there is no way yet to create a directory on the FTP server. I had a quick look through the code on how the other FTP actions were implemented. Being surprised with the nice setup of the code I had quite easily added the "make directory" action and got it working properly. You can download my MakeDirInv class here: http://ansuz.nl/toys/randomcode/MakeDirInv.as
All you need to do after that is patch the FTPClient class by adding the following method.

Actionscript:
  1. /**
  2. * Creates a directory on the remote host.
  3. *
  4. * @param newDirName The name of the new directory to create.
  5. * @param parentDir (Optional) The directory to create the new directory in.
  6. */
  7. public function makeDir(newDirName:String, parentDir:String = "/"):void {
  8. trace("FTPClient.makeDir(newDirName, parentDir)");
  9. invoke(new MakeDirInv(this, newDirName, parentDir));
  10. }

Once you've done that, you're ready to create directories on the FTP server you're connected to, see the example below.

Actionscript:
  1. ftpClient.addEventListener(FTPEvent.CREATE_DIR, dirCreatedHandler);
  2. ftpClient.makeDir("myNewDir", "/someSubDir/");

PS: This isn't fully tested yet, so do let me know if you find some bugs.

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Installing ANT contrib for Eclipse

Friday, August 13th, 2010

A quick step by step guide to installing ANT-contrib for Eclipse (on Windows).

  1. Download ANT-contrib: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/files/
  2. Extract the zip to your harddrive, I extracted it to C:/ant-contrib/
  3. Include ANT-contrib in your ANT build file, so you don't have to set it up every time you create a new project. (See XML below)
  4. All done!

Additional XML in ANT build script:

XML:
  1. <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
  2. <classpath>
  3. <pathelement location="[full path to ant-contrib jar]"/>
  4. </classpath>
  5. </taskdef>

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