A proposal for a FTP client API

[David M. Lloyd]

On 05/23/2008 10:20 AM, Jean-Christophe Collet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have posted an entry in my blog about the current status of the FTP 
> client API.
> [..]
> As mentioned in the post, feedback is very strongly encouraged.

Some technical feedback:

1) FtpClient should implement java.io.Closeable in my opinion.

2) I also feel that listFiles should stream output.  How about returning 
Iterable<FtpFile> instead?  It could return a one-time-use Iterator, 
allowing users to use the extended for-loop syntax if they wish.

3) If this is going into JDK 7 - is there any way to reuse any of the 
FileSystem stuff from JSR-203?  I'm thinking specifically of the way they 
handle file permissions with FileAttributeViews and so forth, but perhaps 
there's things which can be reused as well.

Guess that's all I've got for now.

- DML