Image Transfer App

-- Author: Aditya R.Singh  
-- Date: 16-02-2015  
-- Company: SE CMPN, Shri L.R.Tiwari College of Engineering, Mira Road.  

This is a simple image transfer app intended to be embedded with other project.

This is based on a client server model. What the app does is, all images clicked by a camera is put in the outbox directory on the client side. The image is then transferred to the server over Sockets and is placed in the inbox directory on the server.

Files required on the client side:

1. outbox/
2. bin/com/adi/client/ProjectClient.class
3. bin/com/adi/photo/Photo.class
4. bin/com/adi/transfer/HostDetails.class
5. bin/com/adi/FileTransferListener.class
6. bin/com/adi/FileTransferListener$1.class

File required on the server side:

1. inbox/
2. com/adi/photo/Photo.class
3. com/adi/server/ProjectServer.class
4. com/adi/server/ProjectServer$1.class

To run the app:

1. Turn the server on.

   java -cp bin com.adi.server.ProjectServer

   Make sure to turn on the database server too and configure your database details in the properties/database.properties file.

2. On the client side, turn the DemoTransfer on.

   java -cp bin DemoTransfer

3. And we are done.

Using the API!

1. Create an object of com.adi.transfer.HostDetails with Server IP address and Port number to connect the socket to.
   Example:

   com.adi.transfer.HostDetails host = new com.adi.transfer.HostDetails("64.78.223.98", 80);
   

   This will save the details of the server to be connected to.

2. Create an object of com.adi.client.ProjectClient with the object of com.adi.transfer.HostDetails as a parameter.
   Example:

   com.adi.client.ProjectClient client = new com.adi.client.ProjectClient(host);  
   

   This will connect the Client socket to IP address 64.78.223.98 on port 80. See step 1 for clarification.

3. Call the static method start() from the com.adi.FileTransfer class with com.adi.client.ProjectClient object and the absolute or relative path of the directory where your camera will store images as parameters.
   Example:

   com.adi.FileTransferListener.start(client, "/Users/aditya/Desktop/Workspace/Java/FileTransfer/outbox/");  // Make sure the end the path of the directory with a '/'(forward slash).  
   

   This will start listening to the directory specified ("outbox" in this case) and will transfer any image that comes in the directory to the server specified in the com.adi.transfer.HostDetails object.

4. See the DemoTransfer.java file for a demo on using the API. Where we have used args as command line arguments.
   These are the same args passed as mentioned in running the app section.

5. Good Luck!