How to: Sender File Adapter to dinamically read all subfolders of a folder

Question

Here is the scenario:
-Interface:  A file to file interface.
-Objective: The idea is to move files from a file server to another file server.
-Master Source Folder: ...\OUTPUT\
-Master Destination Folder: .....\INPUT\
Interface example
-Source Folder: ...\OUTPUT\INTERFACE1
-Destination Folder: .....\INPUT\INTERFACE1
The idea is that the PI interface must read all the subfolders inside ..\OUTPUT\ and then move the files found to the corresponding folder in the target.
What we want to achive is to be able to add a new source folder i.e ...\OUTPUT\INTERFACE2 without having to modify the sender File adapter.
Actual status: Dynamic determination of the destination folder is already done, but source folders are statically defined in the sender file adapter.
Can this be done? Perhaps using a Bean Module or something?
Regards.
Mariano Billinghurst.

Answer 1

This is great! In the off chance anyone else is trying to do this, this is also useful if you have Papers and you want to switch to Mendeley. Papers keeps PDFs all organized by year and then author so the PDFs are all nested in subfolders. If you option-click the triangle next to the Papers folder, it will then show all the PDFs. Select All and then drag over the whole thing into Mendeley. I just imported my entire collection in under a minute. Glad I looked this up!