/* This is a simple demo of a Rexx (modelled after the JavaScript) script that uses the Java URL class to download some content from some URL. ooRexx (FOSS): BSF4Rexx (FOSS): or eventually at license: ------------------------ Apache Version 2.0 license ------------------------- Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Rony G. Flatscher Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ /* use the Java URL class to read data from a WWW server */ URL_ADDR = "http://www.RexxLA.org/"; say "connecting to:" URL_ADDR url=.bsf~new("java.net.URL", URL_ADDR) -- create a URL instance /* get the content, a a subclass of: , a subclass of: */ content = url~getContent /* get the content object */ say "Bytes available:" content~available /* get # of bytes */ say "Downloading .. " ch="" do until ch=-1 /* read the content */ ch=content~read /* returns an Integer value representing a Byte or -1 */ if ch>=0 then call charout , ch~d2c /* turn Byte integer value into character */ end ::requires BSF.CLS -- Object Rexx wrapper classes