Speed up recursively listing FTP files

Question

I have an Android app that lists folders and files of a FTP directory. I use Apache Commons FTP Client. It comes down to this line which I call for every folder

FTPFile[] folderElements = ftpClient.listFiles(folderName);

Works fine but is very time consuming. The whole task (getting all files and folders) takes about a minute. Can I speed that up somehow?

I already tried

ftpClient.setBufferSize(1024000);

Premaxilla

The only way to speed it up, is using multiple parallel connections. – Layton

Does one call take a minute? – Baton

No: The whole task (getting all files and folders) takes about a minute – Premaxilla

What's the purpose of your bounty? Do you expect some new approach (apart from parallelization as suggested already)? Or do you expect someone to code it for you? – Layton

@MartinPrikryl: Every bounty has a description. So does mine. And I don't expect anything in particular. – Premaxilla

Is the FTP directory on the mobile device? – Physostomous

No, on a server. – Premaxilla

Answer 1

my project might be a help. https://github.com/Honwhy/commons-pool-ftp (see ftpcp branch)

FTPCPManager ftpCPManager = new FTPCPManager();
ftpCPManager.setUrl("ftp://127.0.0.1");
ftpCPManager.setUsername("sa");
ftpCPManager.setPassword("sa");
ftpCPManager.setKeepAliveTimeout(1 * 60);

ftpCPManager.setConnectTimeout(1 * 1000);
ftpCPManager.setMaxWait(1 * 1000);

CommonFAOSupport support = new CommonFAOSupport(ftpCPManager);

support.downloadDirectory("/apps/data/ftp/download", 4000, 10, processService); //10 thread

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