Try to use Winapi::findFirstFile running on server

Here is a sample code that has worked for me in both client side as well as server side. It uses .NET namespaces to fetch the list of files in a given folder path for a given pattern.

You can modify this to create your own server side version of FindFirstFile method.

X++ Code

static container findMatchingFiles(
        str _folderPath
    ,   str _filePattern   = '*.*')
{
    System.IO.DirectoryInfo     directory;
    System.IO.FileInfo[]        files;
    System.IO.FileInfo          file;
    InteropPermission           permission;

    str         fileName;
    counter     filesCount;
    counter     loop;
    container   mathchingFiles;
    ;

    permission  = new InteropPermission(InteropKind::ClrInterop);
    permission.assert();

    directory   = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(_folderPath);
    files       = directory.GetFiles(_filePattern);
    filesCount  = files.get_Length();

    for (loop = 0; loop < filesCount; loop++)
    {
        file            = files.GetValue(loop);
        fileName        = file.get_FullName();
        mathchingFiles  = conins(mathchingFiles, conlen(mathchingFiles) + 1, fileName);
    }

    CodeAccessPermission::revertAssert();

    return mathchingFiles;
}

Test job

To test the above code, I created the following sample files in the path C:\temp\Files\

I placed the above mentioned method in a sample class named Tutorial_WinApiServer. Then, created a job named fetchFiles with the following code.

static void fetchFiles(Args _args)
{
    container   files;
    counter     loop;
    str         fileName;
    ;

    files = Tutorial_WinApiServer::findMatchingFiles(@'C:\temp\Files', '*.txt');

    for (loop = 1; loop <= conlen(files); loop++)
    {
        fileName = conpeek(files, loop);
        info(fileName);
    }
}

Executing the job gave the following output.

After changing the file pattern to F*.*, the job produced the following output.

Hope that helps.