Help on sending a directory file over a socket

[Iman]

Hi,

I am developing a file sharing client-Server application. I need to send the client directory to the server. Jtree is a structure and I was not able to use it to send the file structure for the client. Any suggestions, please advice.

Regards,
Iman

[Norm]

One way would be to define your own protocol to describe the directory structure.
There might be a way to describe the structure using classes in anther class and then serialize and send the containing class.

[Iman]

Thanks a lot Norm.
I have used the follwing two methods that helped me to construct DefaultMutableTreeNode and send it over a socket as an object. The returend object is DefaultMutableTreeNode

DefaultMutableTreeNode CreateTree ()
{
String myfile = ("C:\\");
Fullpath =myfile+"TmpDir";
File file=new File(Fullpath);
boolean exists = file.exists();
if (!exists)
{
// It returns false if File or directory does not exist
try{
// Create one directory
boolean success = (new File(Fullpath)).mkdir();

}catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
// Create a local user tree
root = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(username.getText(), true);
getList(root,new File(Fullpath));
return root;
}
public void getList(DefaultMutableTreeNode node, File f) {
if(!f.isDirectory()) {
if (f.getName().endsWith("")) {
DefaultMutableTreeNode child = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(f);
node.add(child);
}// end if
}//end if
else {
DefaultMutableTreeNode child = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(f);
node.add(child);
File fList[] = f.listFiles();
for(int i = 0; i < fList.length; i++)
getList(child, fList[i]);
}
}//end get list

[DarrylBurke]

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