FTPClient.jl
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Implemented proposal: improvements to `readdir` (any dir, optional details)
Hello, as I needed some more info that just item names from the readdir directlry, I have implemented the following customisations to (a) allow the listing of any directory (not just the current one) and (b) the reporting of the details of each element and not just the name.
This is not breaking because by default the function returns the same output as the current version of readdir.
This should answer also similar needs, like the request by @omus in #82 .
Let me know if you would be interested, I'll clean it up a bit, make a docstring and create a pull request if it is the case...
The function:
# Modified to get the info if it is a directory and to list info on any directories, not only current one
function FTP_readdir(ftp::FTP,dir=pwd(ftp);details=false)
resp = nothing
try
resp = FTPClient.ftp_command(ftp.ctxt, "LIST $dir")
catch err
if isa(err, FTPClient.FTPClientError)
err.msg = "Failed to list directories."
end
rethrow()
end
dir = split(read(resp.body, String), '\n')
dir = filter(x -> !isempty(x), dir)
if(details)
entries = NamedTuple{(:type, :permissions, :n, :user, :group, :size, :date, :name), Tuple{Char, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, String}}[]
for item in dir
details = split(item)
details_nt = (type=details[1][1],permissions=details[1][2:end],n=details[2],user=details[3],group=details[4],size=details[5],date=join(details[6:8], ' '),name=join(details[9:end], ' '))
push!(entries,details_nt)
end
return entries
else
names = [join(split(line)[9:end], ' ') for line in dir]
return names
end
end
An example:
julia> ftp = FTP(hostname = "palantir.boku.ac.at", username = "anonymous", password = "")
URL: ftp://[email protected]/
Transfer: passive mode
Security: none
julia> FTP_readdir(ftp,"Public/ImprovedForestCharacteristics")
11-element Vector{String}:
"Age"
"Alive_Tree_Carbon"
"Basal_Area"
"Biomass"
"Diameter"
"Height"
"Readme.txt"
"Stand_Density_Index"
"Stem_Number"
"Tree_Species_Group"
"Volume"
julia> FTP_readdir(ftp,"Public/ImprovedForestCharacteristics",details=true)
11-element Vector{NamedTuple{(:type, :permissions, :n, :user, :group, :size, :date, :name), Tuple{Char, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, SubString{String}, String}}}:
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Age")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Alive_Tree_Carbon")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Basal_Area")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Biomass")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Diameter")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Height")
(type = '-', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "1", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "2103", date = "Jan 24 2022", name = "Readme.txt")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Stand_Density_Index")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Stem_Number")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "3", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jun 20 2022", name = "Tree_Species_Group")
(type = 'd', permissions = "rwxrwx---", n = "2", user = "1000", group = "100", size = "4096", date = "Jan 25 2022", name = "Volume")