Copying file from local to SharePoint server location - delphi

Question

Now on my PC I can use explorer to open a location on our SP server (location eg http://sp.myhost.com/site/Documents/). And from there I can copy/paste a file from eg my C:\ drive.
I need to replicate the copy process progmatically. FileCopy() doesn't do it - seems to be the http:// bit that's causing problems!

Answer 1

Does the server allow WebDAV access? If yes, there are WebDAV clients for Delphi available, including Indy 10.

Answer 2

In case if you are not using BLOB storage all SharePoint files are stored in the database as BLOB objects.
When you access your files with explorer you are using windows service which is reading files from SharePoiont and render it to you. This way you can copy and paste as soon as donwload them from an to SharePoint manually.
To be able to do this automatically you should achive this using the next SP API code:
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://testsite.dev"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(#"C:\Debug.txt"))
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length];
fs.Read(buffer, 0, (int) fs.Length);
SPList list = web.GetList("Lists/Test AAD");
SPFile f = list.RootFolder.Files.Add("/Shared Documents/"+Path.GetFileName(fs.Name), buffer);
}
}
}
This will add new "Debug.txt" file to the "Shared Documents" library read from the disk C. To do this for each file just loop through each file in the folder. You can open web only once and do the loop each time when you add file...
Hope it helps,
Andrew