Control How FTP Directory Listings Are Requested

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Demonstrates the AllowMlsd, PreferNlst, and ListOption properties, which control which listing command Chilkat uses and what options it passes.

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkFtp2 ftp = new CkFtp2();

    ftp.put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
    ftp.put_Username("myFtpLogin");

    //  AllowMlsd (default true) requests machine-readable MLSD listings when the server advertises
    //  support.  MLSD is preferred because its format is standardized.
    ftp.put_AllowMlsd(true);

    //  PreferNlst (default false) chooses NLST over LIST when a legacy listing is needed and MLSD is
    //  unavailable.  NLST returns only names.
    ftp.put_PreferNlst(false);

    //  ListOption is appended literally to a legacy LIST command; "-a" sends "LIST -a" to include
    //  hidden files on Unix servers.
    ftp.put_ListOption("-a");

    //  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
    //  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    ftp.put_Password("myPassword");

    success = ftp.Connect();
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    int n = ftp.GetDirCount();
    Log.i(TAG, "Entries: " + String.valueOf(n));

    success = ftp.Disconnect();
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}