Android Example FTP Example using a "Download-Queue"

It began in the english Forum.

In the english part of the forum i wrote an ftp example for @schimanski a few days ago which uses a "FTP Download Queue". all files are put into a list and after that they are downloaded each one after another (using one download at the same time).

I have extended this example a little bit. Now it is first do a LIST-Command (list all files in a defined folder on FTP) and all files listed are put into the downloadqueue. After that all files from the queue are downloaded one after another.

I made some design-changes also.

label1 would be used to show progress of the downloaded files.
lv would be uses to show results of each file. Files downloaded without error are marked with a GREEN item. red marked items are the one where an error occurs.
There is one entry in downloadqueue which does not exists. I made this knowingly due to demonstrate such a situation.



If all files are downloaded (doesnt matter with or without errors) the following code gives you an overview over all made downloads.

For i = 0 To jobresults.Size -1
    Log(jobresults.Get(i))
Next

Inside this you will find informations of each file

All files have been downloaded
{Filename=54532324.jpg, Success=false, Exception=java.lang.RuntimeException: Error retrieving file.
550 /vdfb.de/fonts/54532324.jpg: No such file or directory
}
{Filename=DejaVuSans.ttf, Success=true, Exception=}
{Filename=VeraMoBd.ttf, Success=true, Exception=}
{Filename=VeraMono.ttf, Success=true, Exception=}

Attached you will find my small example. It´s optimizeable i´m sure (i´m still in learning-phase of B4A ) but it may help some of you finding a nice example i suppose.

 

[Luis Alberto Perez]

Hello. I am new to B4A. I have a problem when testing your code. It gives me an error (Username/passwrod type). I asume that you can not give out that information (private).
Can you help me finding an ftp server (free for testing/development purposes) I should suscribe in order to test your code ?
Thanks in advance,
Luis

 

[DonManfred]

Sure, you have to set it up with YOUR own Username/Login from YOUR FTP-Account.
In the test/writing the example) i have used my own FTP-Server-Logincredentials.

You just need a small Webhosting. Mostly you get an ftp-account to access your Webpage with this hosting. Search for ANY Webhosting-Provider and check if they give you ftp-access.

Google is your friend... It will find hostings for free too...

PS: Welcome to B4A community!

 

[Luis Alberto Perez]

Thank you Manfred for your reply and welcome.
I am stock....
I used my account in opendrive.com
url: webdav.opendrive.com , gave my user name and password and got the message: Connection refused.
Also I try with this url: www.opendrive.com and got the same message.
I think I should try with another server. Do you know one that works with this ftp protocol so I would open an account to test?

Best regards,

Luis

 

[DonManfred]

WebDav is not FTP.

WebDav works over HTTP Protocol, FTP over FTP-Protocol.

 

[Luis Alberto Perez]

Ok Manfred. Thats working. Thank you very much.
Finally found a Web Hosting that supports ftp-access.

Best regards.

Luis