Portable Device Path on Windows

Question

I've actually got an Windows/Java Question. I've got a plugged-in device which I want to access via Java. Normally you can access an e.g. USB-Stick via the Drive letter... but this tablet is displayed by Windows as a "Portable Device"... which means, that the Path is something like "Computer\Archos 5S" and there is no Drive letter.

I want to access a file on this device via Java, but I am not able to figure out the correct path to it. There is a similar question out there, but without a productive answer. Or is there another way to access this device via Java?

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Actually I've not solved this problem... I am still not able to access such a device via java.

At the moment I am trying to access a windows ShellFolder in Java. A Shellfolder like: "Shell:::{35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01}"

Is this possible with Java? Recently I uncovered the sun.awt class "ShellFolder"... is this the wanted feature?

thanks for your help Ripei

Answer 1

The solution to above problem using JMTP library on https://code.google.com/p/jmtp/

Here is my code

package jmtp;

import be.derycke.pieter.com.COMException;
import be.derycke.pieter.com.Guid;
import java.io.*;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import jmtp.PortableDevice;
import jmtp.*;

public class Jmtp {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PortableDeviceManager manager = new PortableDeviceManager();
        PortableDevice device = manager.getDevices()[0];
        // Connect to my mp3-player
        device.open();

        System.out.println(device.getModel());

        System.out.println("---------------");

        // Iterate over deviceObjects
        for (PortableDeviceObject object : device.getRootObjects()) {
            // If the object is a storage object
            if (object instanceof PortableDeviceStorageObject) {
                PortableDeviceStorageObject storage = (PortableDeviceStorageObject) object;

                for (PortableDeviceObject o2 : storage.getChildObjects()) {
//                    
//                        BigInteger bigInteger1 = new BigInteger("123456789");
//                        File file = new File("c:/JavaAppletSigningGuide.pdf");
//                        try {
//                            storage.addAudioObject(file, "jj", "jj", bigInteger1);
//                        } catch (Exception e) {
//                            //System.out.println("Exception e = " + e);
//                        }
//                    

                    System.out.println(o2.getOriginalFileName());
                }
            }
        }

        manager.getDevices()[0].close();

    }
}

Do not forget add jmtp.dll files (that comes up with jmtp download) as a native library. For more info, see my answer on Including Native Library in Netbeans.