On 20 March 2014 13:15, murali krishnan <murali.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Team,
Is this about VFS? or about NET? In any case, this is off-topic for the developer list. Please subscribe to the user list and re-post there. Please also use a subject that starts with the [name] of the component. The rest of the subject line should provide some clue as what the e-mail is about. This makes it easier for people to help you, and easier for people reading the archives to benefit from the thread. > > > I have a question regarding the commons-net-3.3.jar. The below code snippet > is from FTPClient.java (available in commons-net-3.3-sources.jar). I am > calling the method retrieveFile to download a file from a FTP server. I > just want to know whether this stores the entire file content in the memory > or writes the file directly to the disk? Can you clarify my query please? > > > > public boolean retrieveFile(String remote, OutputStream local) > > throws IOException > > { > > return _retrieveFile(FTPCmd.RETR.getCommand(), remote, local); > > } > > > > /** > > * @since 3.1 > > */ > > protected boolean _retrieveFile(String command, String remote, > OutputStream local) > > throws IOException > > { > > Socket socket = _openDataConnection_(command, remote); > > > > if (socket == null) { > > return false; > > } > > > > InputStream input = getBufferedInputStream(socket.getInputStream()); > > if (__fileType == ASCII_FILE_TYPE) { > > input = new FromNetASCIIInputStream(input); > > } > > > > CSL csl = null; > > if (__controlKeepAliveTimeout > 0) { > > csl = new CSL(this, __controlKeepAliveTimeout, > __controlKeepAliveReplyTimeout); > > } > > > > // Treat everything else as binary for now > > try > > { > > Util.copyStream(input, local, getBufferSize(), > > CopyStreamEvent.UNKNOWN_STREAM_SIZE, > __mergeListeners(csl), > > false); > > } finally { > > Util.closeQuietly(input); > > Util.closeQuietly(socket); > > if (csl != null) { > > csl.cleanUp(); // fetch any outstanding keepalive replies > > } > > } > > > > // Get the transfer response > > boolean ok = completePendingCommand(); > > return ok; > > } > > > > Regards > > Murali --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org