I am trying to use Apache VFS to read files inside SharePoint 2013 mounted as a network drive. I use the following code
try {
StandardFileSystemManager manager = new StandardFileSystemManager();
manager.addProvider("http", new WebdavFileProvider());
manager.setCacheStrategy(CacheStrategy.ON_CALL);
manager.setFilesCache(new SoftRefFilesCache());
FileObject fileObject = manager.resolveFile("http://sp2013w2k12r2/PuneetsLibrary/");
System.out.println(fileObject.getFileSystem().hasCapability(Capability.LIST_CHILDREN));
System.out.println(fileObject.isFolder());
} catch (FileSystemException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
but i get the following error
org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme INFO: ntlm authentication scheme selected Aug 03, 2016 5:29:55 PM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processWWWAuthChallenge INFO: No credentials available for NTLM @sp2013w2k12r2:80 org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException: Could not determine the type of file "http://sp2013w2k12r2/PuneetsLibrary". at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractFileObject.getType(AbstractFileObject.java:1526) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractFileObject.isFolder(AbstractFileObject.java:1726) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DecoratedFileObject.isFolder(DecoratedFileObject.java:211) at SharePointVFSMain.main(SharePointVFSMain.java:18) Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException: Unknown message with code "Unauthorized". at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.ExceptionConverter.generate(ExceptionConverter.java:88) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.ExceptionConverter.generate(ExceptionConverter.java:41) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.execute(WebdavFileObject.java:594) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperties(WebdavFileObject.java:632) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperties(WebdavFileObject.java:620) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperty(WebdavFileObject.java:664) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperty(WebdavFileObject.java:671) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.isDirectory(WebdavFileObject.java:716) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.doGetType(WebdavFileObject.java:405) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractFileObject.getType(AbstractFileObject.java:1517) ... 3 more
I realized what had to be done. The java process if run with credentials of the user who has permissions to SharePoint site, is able to read the documents.