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FTP service for the file manager component

This repository contains the ASP.NET Core file transfer protocol file system providers for the Syncfusion File Manager component.

Key Features

A file system provider is an API for access to the hosted file system using File Transfer Protocol(FTP) in the FileManager control. It also provides the methods for performing various file actions like creating a new folder, renaming files and deleting files.

ASP.NET Core FTP file system provider serves the FTP file system for the file manager component.

The following actions can be performed with ASP.NET Core file system Provider.

Actions Description
Read Reads the files from the FTP file storage.
Details Gets a file's metadata which consists of Type, Size, Location and Modified date.
Download Downloads the selected file or folder.
Upload Upload's the file in hosted file system. It accepts uploaded media with the following characteristics:
  • Maximum file size: 30MB
  • Accepted Media MIME types: */*
Create Creates a new folder.
Delete Deletes a folder or file.
Copy Copies the contents of the file from the target location .
Move Paste the copied files to the desired location.
Rename Renames a folder or file.
Search Searches a file or folder.

Prerequisites

To run the service, open the FTPFileProvider and register the FTP details like hostName, userName, password details in the SetFTPConnection method to perform the file operations.

Provide the hostName parameter as like root path in the SetFTPConnection method.

   void SetFTPConnection(string hostName, string userName, string password);   

How to run this application?

To run this application, you need to first clone the ftp-aspcore-file-provider repository and then navigate to its appropriate path where it has been located in your system.

To do so, open the command prompt and run the below commands one after the other.

git clone https://github.com/SyncfusionExamples/ftp-aspcore-file-provider  ftp-aspcore-file-provider

cd ftp-aspcore-file-provider

Running application

Once cloned, open the solution file in visual studio.Then build the project, after restoring the nuget packages and run it.

File Manager AjaxSettings

To access the basic actions such as Read, Delete, Copy, Move, Rename, Search, and Get Details of File Manager using FTP service, just map the following code snippet in the AjaxSettings property of File Manager.

Here, the hostUrl will be your locally hosted port number.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/FTPProvider/FTPFileOperations'
  }

File download AjaxSettings

To perform download operation, initialize the downloadUrl property in ajaxSettings of the File Manager component.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/FTPProvider/FTPFileOperations',
        downloadUrl: hostUrl +'api/FTPProvider/FTPDownload'
  }

File upload AjaxSettings

To perform upload operation, initialize the uploadUrl property in ajaxSettings of the File Manager component.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/FTPProvider/FTPFileOperations',
        uploadUrl: hostUrl +'api/FTPProvider/FTPUpload'
  }

File image preview AjaxSettings

To perform image preview support in the File Manager component, initialize the getImageUrl property in ajaxSettings of the File Manager component.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/FTPProvider/FTPFileOperations',
         getImageUrl: hostUrl +'api/FTPProvider/FTPGetImage'
  }

The FileManager will be rendered as the following.

File Manager

Support

Product support is available for through following mediums.

License

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Changelog

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