I am using apache-commons-net 3.4 and i found a strange issue i cant explain. I want to get the FTPFile entries of an directory but when i use FTPClient#listFiles() an empty array is returned, but FTPClient#listNames() list all entries.
FTPClient client = new FTPClient();
client.connect("192.168.1.4");
client.enterLocalPassiveMode();
client.login("ftpuser", "ftpuser");
System.out.println( client.listFiles("/").length); // prints 0
System.out.println( client.listNames("/").length); // prints 21
What is going on here how to use listFiles() correct ?
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From the documentation of FtpClient, the two methods don't work in the same way :
listFiles(String pathname) Using the default system autodetect mechanism, obtain a list of file information for the current working directory or for just a single file.This information is obtained through the LIST command.
listNames(String pathname) Obtain a list of filenames in a directory (or just the name of a given file, which is not particularly useful).This information is obtained through the NLST command.