GoldRaccoon

General Notes

GoldRaccoon is the iOS component to connect to a FTP service and do the following:

• Download a file
• Upload a file
• Delete a file
• Create a directory
• Delete a directory
• List a directory

Why another Raccoon?

First, because the humanity needs it.

This project started on 29/06/2013 for the Objective-C Hackathon (http://objectivechackathon.appspot.com/).

GoldRaccoon aims to be an evolution of BlackRaccoon (which is an evolution of WhiteRaccoon), maybe the best (or at least one of the few) third-party component out there for handling FTP operations on iOS.

I forked the public repo of BlackRaccooon in May 2013 and added some improvements that have been merged into master to BlackRaccoon. Even though BlackRaccoon does what it says, I prefer to clean it a little and use a different and more extensible code structure.

Most of the code is therefore written by Valentin Radu and Lloyd Sargent, the main extensions I (Alberto De Bortoli) added are:

• Done some deep refactoring for the bloating of the previous code;
• Added missing (and reasonable) code conventions;
• Added GRRequestsManager to manage all the different kind of requests using a FIFO queue;
• Added a demo project.

Usage

If you'd like to include this component as a pod using CocoaPods, just add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "GoldRaccoon"

otherwise

• copy Sources folder into your project
• add CFNetwork framework
• import GRRequestsManager.h in your class
• add a property for the manager

@property (nonatomic, strong) GRRequestsManager *requestsManager;

• setup the manager somewhere (with hostname, username and password)

self.requestsManager = [[GRRequestsManager alloc] initWithHostname:<hostname>
                                                              user:<username>
                                                          password:<password>];

• optionally make your class conform to GRRequestsManagerDelegate, implement the delegate methods (basically success, failure and progress callbacks) and set your instance of this class as delegate for the manager

self.requestsManager.delegate = self;

• add the requests to the manager using the following methods:

addRequestForListDirectoryAtPath:
addRequestForCreateDirectoryAtPath:
addRequestForDeleteFileAtPath:
addRequestForDeleteDirectoryAtPath:
addRequestForDownloadFileAtRemotePath:toLocalPath:
addRequestForUploadFileAtLocalPath:toRemotePath:

• start the manager

[self.requestsManager startProcessingRequests];