Xojo Plugin

FTP Download Text File to a Stream

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Demonstrates how to FTP download a text file to a Chilkat stream.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.67 or greater.

Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// This example assumes the Chilkat FTP2 API to have been previously unlocked.
// See FTP2 Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim ftp As New Chilkat.Ftp2

ftp.Hostname = "www.my-ftp-server.com"
ftp.Username = "mFtpLogin"
ftp.Password = "myFtpPassword"
ftp.AuthTls = True
ftp.Passive = True

// Connect and login to the FTP server using TLS.
success = ftp.Connect()
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(ftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim streamObj As New Chilkat.Stream

// Indicate the charset of the incoming data.
streamObj.StringCharset = "utf-8"

// Create a task to do the FTP download.
Dim t As Chilkat.Task
t = ftp.GetFileToStreamAsync("lines.txt",streamObj)
If (ftp.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(ftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Start the task in a background thread.
success = t.Run()

// Read the incoming text data using any of the streamObj Read methods.
// This example will read line-by-line.
Dim line As String
While streamObj.EndOfStream <> True
    line = streamObj.ReadToCRLF()
    If (streamObj.LastMethodSuccess = True) Then
        System.DebugLog(line)
    End If

Wend

System.DebugLog("Success.")