async CreateObjectChildren ?

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Posted 4 years ago by rex hui
Version: 19.1.0685
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We are extending the WindowsShellService class to handle ftp. If I understand it correctly, we should be overriding the CreateObjectChildren function and return the list of files and folders retrieved from the ftp server.

My question is the ftp operations obviously could take a while to complete and it will be blocking the UI if we use a synchronous ftp method. However we can't call an asynchronous ftp method since the CreateObjectChildren cannot be made into an async override.

Shouldn't Actipro be providing an async version of IShellService.CreateObjectChildren which returns a Task<IList<IShellObject>>?

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Posted 4 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Rex,

When our internal WindowsShellWatcher class detects new files, we update the parent IShellObject's Children list, and raise the IShellObject.Changed event with ShellObjectChangeKind.ChildAdded.  If you do that kind of thing, it should allow you to incrementally add them.


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Posted 4 years ago by rex hui
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Thanks. I think I kinda know what to do now.

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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