Change proposal for FTP task

[Da...@bedag.ch]

Hi folks.

We had a rather nasty problem with the ant FTP task. We needed some encoding
conversion from the developers workstations To the FTP server which runs on
an IBM mainframe the desired encoding was cp1047 which is not supported (we
arent sure if ist really the desired encoding since the mainframe guys
werent to clear about which of those 3 or 4 encodings they use on the
machine is what we would need). The standard solution used in manual ftp
transfers is to submit a 'site' command pointing to the appropriate
conversion table on the host. This wasnt possible with ant. Its a minor
modification and ive done it to solve our problem. I propose to change the
FTP class accordingly since there are probably others which would need such
functionality.

Below are the changes. I have the whole change ftp source too, if this would
be more convenient. The code isnt thoroughly tested but works. 

Thanks for ant, folks. Great to know youre out there.

Dan

8<-------------8<-------------cut here-------------8<-------------8<

	...
	
	private String initialCommands = null;
	
	...
	
	/**
	 * sets commands which are executed in order after the 
	 * connection has been established.
	 */
	public void setInitialcommands(String initialCommands) {
		this.initialCommands = initialCommands;
	}
	
	...

	public void execute() throws BuildException {

		...

		log("login succeeded", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
		// new code
			
		if (initialCommands != null) {
			Vector cmds = StringUtils.split(initialCommands,
';');
			for (int i = 0; i < cmds.size(); i++) {
				doSiteCommand(ftp, (String) cmds.get(i));
			}
		}
		
		// end new code
		if (binary) {
			
		...
	}

Re: Change proposal for FTP task

[Jay <jv...@comcast.net>]

If it's S390 or z/os it might be a setup problem on your FTP started task.  I 
use the ftp task from ant 1.5.1 as is and have not had any translation 
problems.  When I send text data I use binary="no",  and a second task 
binary="yes" for things like .class files.  You might check your TCPIP.DATA  
parms, see what you have for ASATRANS, CCXLATE and SBDATACONN.

Also I have a few S390 java programs that send data to WINNT and unix, the 
code page that I use is CP1252, might be the one you want.

On Monday 08 September 2003 03:36, Daniel.Mueller@bedag.ch wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> We had a rather nasty problem with the ant FTP task. We needed some
> encoding conversion from the developers workstations To the FTP server
> which runs on an IBM mainframe the desired encoding was cp1047 which is not
> supported (we arent sure if ist really the desired encoding since the
> mainframe guys werent to clear about which of those 3 or 4 encodings they
> use on the machine is what we would need). The standard solution used in
> manual ftp transfers is to submit a 'site' command pointing to the
> appropriate conversion table on the host. This wasnt possible with ant. Its
> a minor modification and ive done it to solve our problem. I propose to
> change the FTP class accordingly since there are probably others which
> would need such functionality.
>
> Below are the changes. I have the whole change ftp source too, if this
> would be more convenient. The code isnt thoroughly tested but works.
>
> Thanks for ant, folks. Great to know youre out there.
>
> Dan
>
> 8<-------------8<-------------cut here-------------8<-------------8<
>
> 	...
>
> 	private String initialCommands = null;
>
> 	...
>
> 	/**
> 	 * sets commands which are executed in order after the
> 	 * connection has been established.
> 	 */
> 	public void setInitialcommands(String initialCommands) {
> 		this.initialCommands = initialCommands;
> 	}
>
> 	...
>
> 	public void execute() throws BuildException {
>
> 		...
>
> 		log("login succeeded", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
> 		// new code
>
> 		if (initialCommands != null) {
> 			Vector cmds = StringUtils.split(initialCommands,
> ';');
> 			for (int i = 0; i < cmds.size(); i++) {
> 				doSiteCommand(ftp, (String) cmds.get(i));
> 			}
> 		}
>
> 		// end new code
> 		if (binary) {
>
> 		...
> 	}


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