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a super tiny Java class to fetch a file from the Internet
/*
* Copyright (c) 2024 Georgios Politis
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
* obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
* files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
* restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
* copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
* Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
* conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
* included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
* EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
* OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
* NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
* HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
* WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
* FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
* OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.nio.channels.Channels;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
/**
* JURL (like curl but with messed up capitalisation) is a super tiny
* Java class to fetch a file from the Internet in super restricted
* environments (like for example a Java application container) lacking
* wget or curl (but with a JDK..). Usage:
*
* <pre>
* {@code
* $ cat <<EOF > JURL.java
* ...
* EOF
* javac JURL.java
* java -cp . Jurl https://www.google.com/robots.txt robots.txt
* }
* </pre>
*/
public class JURL {
public static void main(String... argv) throws IOException {
var readableByteChannel = Channels
.newChannel(URI.create(argv[0]).toURL().openStream());
try (var fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(argv[1])) {
var fileChannel = fileOutputStream.getChannel();
fileChannel.transferFrom(
readableByteChannel, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
}
}
}
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