(MFC) Delete Local Files that Do Not Exist on the FTP Server

Demonstrates how to get a list of local files in a directory tree that do not exist on the FTP server.

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See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkFtp2.h>
#include <CkStringArray.h>
#include <CkFileAccess.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkFtp2 ftp;

    ftp.put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
    ftp.put_Username("login");
    ftp.put_Password("password");

    ftp.put_KeepSessionLog(true);

    // Connect and login to the FTP server.
    bool success = ftp.Connect();
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(ftp.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    // Set the current remote directory to the root of
    // the remote tree to be compared.
    success = ftp.ChangeRemoteDir("abc123");
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(ftp.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    // Recursively descend the local directory tree
    // and find the files that exist locally but not remotely.
    // These are the files what would be uploaded via
    // the SyncRemoteTree method call with mode = 1.
    // (Mode 1 would upload all files that do not exist on the FTP server.)

    // The actual uploading is avoided by setting the preview-only argument to true.
    int mode = 1;
    bool descendTree = true;
    bool previewOnly = true;
    success = ftp.SyncRemoteTree2("/temp/abc123",mode,descendTree,previewOnly);
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(ftp.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    // The files what would've been uploaded are now available in the SyncPreview property,
    // which contains a list of local file paths, one per line.
    // A program can iterate over them like this:
    CkStringArray sa;
    sa.LoadFromText(ftp.syncPreview());

    CkFileAccess fac;

    int numFiles = sa.get_Count();
    int i = 0;
    const char *localFilePath = 0;
    while ((i < numFiles)) {
        localFilePath = sa.getString(i);
        strOut.append(localFilePath);
        strOut.append("\r\n");

        // An application can delete the file using Chilkat's file access object,
        // or it can choose to use the native file API available in the programming language:
        success = fac.FileDelete(localFilePath);
        if (success != true) {
            strOut.append("Failed to delete: ");
            strOut.append(localFilePath);
            strOut.append("\r\n");
        }

        i = i + 1;
    }

    success = ftp.Disconnect();


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }