Comments on: Read external directory files

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:00 +0000

I just wanted to say thank you. It really helped me.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:35:30 +0000

I’ll try to test this later in the week.

By: LIGON

LIGON — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:51:31 +0000

Hi This in align with the question KAYU asked.

I was trying to access another system drive in my home network with path like //somefolder/anotherfolder

I have granted permissions as well. When I tried

SELECT column_value list_of_files FROM TABLE(list_files(‘\\VAIO4TAJI\share’))

I get no error message, but no results either.

Hope to get some help

Cheers
Ligon

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:38:54 +0000

The restriction is probably linked to the domain rights of the user. Is the owner of the remote directly the same Administrative user that owns the installation?

By: KAYU

KAYU — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:27:41 +0000

Have anyone use this method with a mapped shared drive name?

In all our examples we used the local drive C:\… and it was working fine until I tried to access using a map drive H:. It is pointing to a network share xx on \\Server01\xx.

It throws the exception “Directory permissions restricted”. But I have granted the java permission on H:\…

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:47:25 +0000

Awesome… I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out a way to do this.

By: Orian

Orian — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:39:28 +0000

thanks a lot.

u really saved my bacon …

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:23:59 +0000

Eliseo,

I’d thought the one-liner about changing the catch block answered the question, but thanks for letting me know that it didn’t do the trick. I modified the blog page with a bit more information.

You simply change the catch block as follows, and it will ignore the empty directory and act like a no rows returned cursor.

    catch (AccessControlException e) {}

By: Eliseo Hernandez

Eliseo Hernandez — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:07:56 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the code. It works well, but how can this code handle a directory that is empty? We’d like to simply ignore it and not have it throw the message: “a java null point exception has ocurred….”

Thanks.

By: Iman Mayes

Iman Mayes — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:56:46 +0000

Hi,

This literally saved my a$$ from a lot of pain. I cannot believe that PL/SQL has a UTIL_FILE package for file manipulation but no direct way to list files in a directory!

Thanks!!!

Iman