I am trying to fetch last modified date of a file from FTP environment.The result is not as expected.
By using ftpClient.getModificationTime("File path")
I am getting null.
By using FTPFile.getTimestamp().getTime()
I am getting wrong last modified (i.e. real last modified is of today and I am getting Wed Feb 18 02:55:22 EST 2004).
How to get correct last modified?
Thanks in advance.
FTPClient.getModificationTime
returns null
when the server returns an error response to MDTM
command. Typically that would mean either that:
MDTM
command.Check FTPClient.getReplyString()
.
If it turns out that the FTP server does not support MDTM
command, you will have to use another method to retrieve the timestamps. If MDTM
is not supported, MLSD
won't be either.
In that case the only other way is using LIST
command to retrieve listing of all files and lookup the file you need - Use FTPClient.listFiles()
.
FTPFile[] remoteFiles = ftpClient.listFiles(remotePath);
Arrays.sort(remoteFiles,
Comparator.comparing((FTPFile remoteFile) -> remoteFile.getTimestamp()).reversed());
FTPFile latestFile = remoteFiles[0];
System.out.println(
"Latest file is " + latestFile.getName() +
" with timestamp " + latestFile.getTimestamp().getTime().toString());
See also Make FTP server return files listed by timestamp with Apache FTPClient.