Downloading files through a MIDlet

Question

Hi there, I am new to the J2ME network connections API, especially for downloading data through a MIDlet. I have a small question I hope you could provide some assistance on.
I was wondering if there was a way to download data (ie: a text file) from a website or server. I know that there is a class called "FileConnection" that may do this, but I was wondering how to use it to do that. Also, is there a way to do it without the FileConnection API for phones that do not support it? And as for when the data is downloaded, where exactly on the phone is it stored? In the RMS? Is there a way to download the data into the "/res" folder directly?
Any help would be appreciated,
thanks,
take care

Answer 1

You can do it by a thread, sample run function is given below
public void run() {
        HttpConnection c = null;
        DataInputStream is = null;
        DataOutputStream os = null;      
        try
            String downloadURL = "yourdownloadurl";
            c = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(downloadURL);   
            c.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.GET);
            int resCode = c.getResponseCode();   
            is = new DataInputStream(c.openInputStream());
            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();                       
            os = new DataOutputStream(baos);                     
            int v;
            byte []data = new byte[2048];
            while ((v = is.read(data)) >0 && downloading) 
                os.write(data,0,v);
            os.flush();
            is.close();
            os.close();
            baos.close();
            c.close();
            System.out.println("The file is "+baos.toString());
        catch (Exception e)
}Edited by: Shimul on Oct 7, 2007 3:32 AM