File download using FTP

Ionic Native
1

Hello,

I have a problem with the FTP plugin (http://ionicframework.com/docs/native/ftp/). I want to download a series of files from an FTP one by one and once a file is downloaded the application should read the file and insert the data into a database. The problem is that the application reads the file before it is downloaded 100% and I do not know how to fix it.

According to the documentation, the download percentage is returned, but I do not know how to launch the function once it reaches 100%.

This is my code:

this.ftp.download(pathLocal+'lecturaData/'+filename, filename)
  			.then((resDL: any)=>{
		  		if (resDL == 1) {
			  		return this.FromFileToBBDD(this.file.externalDataDirectory+'lecturaData/', filename);
		  		}
  			})
		  .catch((error: any) => {
		  	console.error(error);
		  });

Thank you very much

2

@GabberMan did you manage to get this to work? I did the same way but the progress seems to only fire once. But the file got downloaded. Uploads give the same result too.

As a workaround I am using an interval to check if the downloaded file is written to storage. However, I canā€™t use the same interval to check for uploads.

3

Hello, I finally did the most horrible thing I could doā€¦ I set a waiting time to ā€œwaitā€ for the document to be downloaded, I could not find any solution.

Iā€™m sorry I canā€™t help you

4

@GabberMan I did the same way too but I needed to upload and that didnā€™t work.

By the way, it seems to be an issue with Ionic typescript / angular version of the plugin. The upload function returns a promise but an observable is more appropriate. I used this one here which works - https://github.com/olaferlandsen/cordova-plugin-ftp

It has upload and download with progress :slight_smile:

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5

Nice! Iā€™m going to try it, thanks! :smiley:

6

Hello, Iā€™m facing the same issue but with upload, as what @arsyad said this is an issue with the native plugin itself, shouldnā€™t we need to post an issue?

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Returns: Promise<any> Returns a promise. It will be triggered many times according the fileā€™s size. The arg 0, 0.1xx, 0.2xx ā€¦ 1 means the upload percent. When it reach 1, means success.

https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/ftp/#download

It is triggered multiple times, so I guess you could try an if statement in your the functionā€¦
But on the other hand I donā€™t know wether a promise could be triggered multiple timesā€¦ it thought when its done the the state couldnā€™t be canged anymore?

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Hello user5555, the if statement does not work, and I do not know what it means to say that the promise could be activated several timesā€¦ once you get the ā€˜thenā€™ return, the value does not change.

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Iā€™m confused too, the docs seem to be wrong or there is a bug.

10

I have no idea, but it seems that arsyad found the solution (File download using FTP) and it is what I have finally used.

It seems incredible that we have to use a cordova plugin to make it work for us, but thatā€™s the way it is