Is anyone actually using FTP ServerDirectory connections? 

I’ve been having trouble trying to connect to my server (initially because it seems that you can’t connect to the root - #openFTPClient tries to switch directory and that fails for ‘.' or ‘/' or ‘’, though eventually just using ‘/public' shewed promise even though it isn’t where I want to connect) and there seems to be a problem with how the Morphic version of FileList (which has the tree-view of the directories) attempts to get suitable labels for each node. The MVC version - which fakes the tree view in ugly ways - doesn’t fail in this particular manner.

So far as I can see right now the first level cause of the problem is IndentingListItemMorph>>getLabel. That takes us eventually to PluggableTreeItemNode>asString, and to FileList>directoryNameOf: where we at last start to see some ServerDirectory specific bits. The problem seems to be that we are only looking for a dictionary key matching the *root* of the ftp connection and anything else is an error. So unsurprisingly that fails for any subdirectory we try to look at when expanding the tree node.

If I change FileList>>directoryNameOf: aDirectory to-

	"Attempt to find the name of ServerDirectories when used."

	^(aDirectory isRemoteDirectory and:[aDirectory isKindOf: ServerDirectory])
		ifTrue:[ServerDirectory servers keyAtIdentityValue: aDirectory ifAbsent:[aDirectory localName]]
		ifFalse:[aDirectory localName]

… then the FileList actually sorta works.  I’d say that somewhere we ought to be filtering out the . & .. directory entries though.

Since the apparently broken code is datestamped in 2010 I’m drawn to the conclusion that no one has used FTP stuff in a while ;-)
Hopefully I’m wrong and someone will tell me a better solution.

tim
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