Getting directory list

I’ve got an app. that can open and save XML data (using the v10 plug-in). The client wants to add a drop down populated with a list of the XML files saved in a “Sample Calculations” folder. I’m not exactly sure if AS3 can dynamically read the contents of a directory (this would have to work both online and when run as a local app, so server side scripting is not an option). Right now my only idea is to use a manually created XML file that contains a list of the other files in the directory, but this seems quite cumbersome, I’d rather have the app. just dynamically read what’s in the folder. Flash image browsers seem to be able to read all JPG’s in folder X, is this kind of thing done strictly through server side scripting? (or I guess you could also do it using a strict file naming convention and read files sequentially until you get a file not found error, not an option for me).

Thanks, I was afraid of that. The Air app’s install requirement will make that a non-starter. If this were a high priority feature I’d probably spring for Northcode’s SWF Studio as a local solution, however, using an XML file list gives me at least a 70% solution at no added cost, so that’s probably going to be my approach.

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Get directory listing or files contained in a folder which is placed on a s

Hello,
I want to get the directory listing of a particular folder say 'xyz' which is placed on the server.
I am using tomcat. I want to use Http to do it. How do it do it.
Please guide.
Regards,
JAVA_student

JAVA_student ,
as pointed out file list is (in productional environments) usually turned off for security reasons.
But I had a similiar requirement to the one you posted. I had a directory with thousands of image files with the name pattern <id>.jpg and the id's stored in a database. Not for every id in the database there existed a file. I wanted to show an image or in case the image file did not exist a default jpg. I could not set the error pages in web.xml to do it.
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* "Clear the Cache": Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
* "Remove the Cookies" from sites that cause problems: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
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How can I get file list for a given directory?

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How can I get file list for a given directory? Is there a function?
Thanks.

Hi friend,
Try this sample report. It displays all files in a directory.
While executing give some directory name in input. ex: C:\
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DATA : dir_table LIKE TABLE OF sdokpath WITH HEADER LINE .
PARAMETERS:p_dir(50) TYPE c.
CALL FUNCTION 'TMP_GUI_DIRECTORY_LIST_FILES'
EXPORTING
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TABLES
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EXCEPTIONS
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 use this code i have checked its working fine
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 w_dirnam type EPSF-EPSDIRNAM.
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EXPORTING
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* FILE_MASK = ' '
* IMPORTING
* DIR_NAME =
* FILE_COUNTER =
* ERROR_COUNTER =
tables
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* EXCEPTIONS
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* NO_AUTHORIZATION = 4
* READ_DIRECTORY_FAILED = 5
* TOO_MANY_READ_ERRORS = 6
* EMPTY_DIRECTORY_LIST = 7
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* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
* WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
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Problem with getting a list of files in a directory

I'm trying to get a list of files in a particular directory. The problem is I'm also getting a listing of all the sub-directories too. Here is my code:
File directory = new File(dir);
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filelist = directory.listFiles();
for(int i=0;i<filelist.length;i++)
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What am I doing wrong?
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You are not doing anything wrong. You just have to test whether a given file is a subdirectory:
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I need to get a list of files from a shared directory on another server and put them in a HTMLB TableView element with links to the files.
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Message was edited by: Roman Dubov

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So how would you best get a directory listing?
There was a lovely thread about using dbms_scheduler to make external calls:
Re: External procedure calls supported?
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Kind Regards,
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Got the link to the 'External procedure calls support' wrong.
Message was edited by: jcrockart

Ok.
Well here is the solution... Can I make it better?
FROM OS (oracle user):
vi ~/get_dir.sh
#!/bin/sh
ls $1 > /tmp/$2
exit 0
##end
FROM SYS:
create directory OS_TMP as '/tmp';
grant read,write on directory OS_TMP to hr;
grant create table to hr;
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create global temporary table DIR_LIST
( filename varchar2(255) )
on commit delete rows
--create the following:
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p_directory     in varchar2
IS
l_jobname VARCHAR2 (100);
BEGIN
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     --dbms_output.put_line('ls '||p_directory||' > /tmp/blah');
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          job_name => l_jobname,
          job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
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          organization external (
          type          oracle_loader
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               records delimited by newline
               fields terminated by '',''
               missing field values are null
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test.sh
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I can't drop the external table as the data in the global temporary table will be lost, so I will have to periodically clean up after this procedure.
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James

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