Code to establish a connection with ftp

[former_member185881]

Hi All

Code to establish a connection with ftp and then delete the contents of file

Through this code i am trying to delete the contents of a file at FTP location

FileLocation = new URL("ftp://+username:password@IPAddress/Directory" +"/"+fileName+ "");
URLConnection uc = FileLocation.openConnection() ;  // to establish connection with FTP server using URL
uc.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStream out = uc.getOutputStream();
Audit.addAuditLogEntry(auditMKey,AuditLogStatus.SUCCESS,"CustomModule :: file"+out);
out.flush();//to make the file empty 
out.close();//close the file so that connection can be terminated

Output out is not getting any value (not getting initialized)

Please let me know the reason.

Regards

Dheeraj Kumar

[Former Member]

Hi Dheeraj,

I think you just need to write something to the output stream. This worked for me:

URL url = new URL("ftp://<user>:<pass>@<host>:<port>/<pathToFile>");
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection() ;
urlConn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStream out = urlConn.getOutputStream() ;			    
out.write(new byte[0]);
out.flush();
out.close();

If you need to do more than this perhaps look at: http://commons.apache.org/net/

-Russ