[jira] [Commented] (VFS-307) VFS issues a lot of FTP commands when listing a directory

["Ibrahim Hasbini (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ibrahim Hasbini commented on VFS-307:
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Hello Mario,

I've been debugging an issue where folder creation was failing and found the method "FTPFile[] listFilesInDirectory(String relPath)" in FTPClientWrapper and this issue.

It seems some FTP servers do not return an error code when the LIST command gets a path that contains space, but simply return an empty list of files and a success code.
This causes solution 2 mentioned above to never fallback to "change directory + list", this later causes VFS to think that a folder does not exist while in reality it does (eventually causing an exception when we try to create that existing folder).

Is it ok to always fallback to "change directory + list" when a path contains spaces?

Thanks.
                
> VFS issues a lot of FTP commands when listing a directory
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VFS-307
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-307
>             Project: Commons VFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Mario Ivankovits
>             Fix For: Nightly Builds
>
>
> Hello Mario,
>  
> We at JetBrains are implementing support for (S)FTP sync in our IDEs using Commons VFS. When looking at the performance, we noticed that FTP provider is somewhat not perfect: see my discussion with Ralph. 
>  
> So the question is: why FtpClientWrapper changes the current directory to issue 'LIST' command and restoring it back afterwards instead of issuing single 'LIST <relpath>'? 
>  
> Subversion says it was you who introduced this behavior far back in 2008. Hope you remember those times and reason why you did this.
>  
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>  
> Kirill Safonov
> JetBrains, Inc
> http://www.jetbrains.com
> "Develop with pleasure!"
>  

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