React Native

SFTP Get/Set File Permission

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Demonstrates how to set the permissions of a file on the SFTP server. React Native

import { SFtp } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const sftp = new SFtp();

  // Connect to the SSH/SFTP server.  
  const hostname = 'sftp.example.com';
  const port = 22;
  try {
    await sftp.connectAsync(hostname, port);
  } catch {
    console.log(sftp.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
  // both password-based authenication as well as public-key
  // authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
  try {
    await sftp.authenticatePwAsync('myLogin', 'myPassword');
  } catch {
    console.log(sftp.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
  try {
    await sftp.initializeSftpAsync();
  } catch {
    console.log(sftp.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Get the file permissions for the "hamlet.xml" file on the server.
  // The hamlet.xml file is located in the qa_data directory found under the HOME directory of the SSH user account.
  // We are passing the remote file path (we are not passing a file handle returned by a previous call to OpenFile).
  const isHandle = false;
  const followLinks = true;
  const permVal = await sftp.getFilePermissionsAsync('qa_data/hamlet.xml', followLinks, isHandle);
  if (permVal < 0) {
    console.log(sftp.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Note: Filesystem permissions on Linux/Unix/MacOSX are typically written in octal (POSIX file permissions).  For example 0644 is octal.
  // To convert to decimal: octal 644 = 6*8^2 + 4*8 + 4 = 420 (decimal)
  // 
  // The server may return a permissions value (in octal) such as 100644.
  // The "100" indicates the file type, such as regular file or directory. 

  // Show the decimal value of the permissions
  console.log(`decimal permissions value: ${permVal}`);

  // To set the file permissions, pass the integer value.
  // Let's change the permissions to 0664, which is 6*8^2 + 6*8 + 4 = 436 (decimal)
  try {
    await sftp.setPermissionsAsync('qa_data/hamlet.xml', isHandle, 436);
  } catch {
    console.log(sftp.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  console.log('Success.');
}