Xojo Plugin Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

SFTP Read Directory Listing

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Demonstrates how to download a directory listing and iterate over the files. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  Important: It is helpful to send the contents of the
//  sftp.LastErrorText property when requesting support.

Dim sftp As New Chilkat.SFtp

//  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
sftp.ConnectTimeoutMs = 5000
sftp.IdleTimeoutMs = 10000

//  Connect to the SSH server.  
//  The standard SSH port = 22
//  The hostname may be a hostname or IP address.
Dim hostname As String
hostname = "www.my-sftp-server.com"
Dim port As Int32
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect(hostname,port)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(sftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
//  both password-based authenication as well as public-key
//  authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(sftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(sftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Open a directory on the server...
//  Paths starting with a slash are "absolute", and are relative 
//  to the root of the file system. Names starting with any other 
//  character are relative to the user's default directory (home directory).
//  A path component of ".." refers to the parent directory, 
//  and "." refers to the current directory. 
Dim handle As String
handle = sftp.OpenDir(".")
If (sftp.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(sftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Download the directory listing:

Dim dirListing As New Chilkat.SFtpDir
success = sftp.ReadDirListing(handle,dirListing)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(sftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Close the handle for the directory listing.
success = sftp.CloseHandle(handle)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(sftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Iterate over the files.
Dim fileObj As New Chilkat.SFtpFile
Dim i As Int32
i = 0
Dim n As Int32
n = dirListing.NumFilesAndDirs
While i < n

    success = dirListing.FileAt(i,fileObj)
    If (success = False) Then
        System.DebugLog(dirListing.LastErrorText)
        Return
    End If

    System.DebugLog(fileObj.Filename)
    System.DebugLog(fileObj.FileType)
    System.DebugLog("Size in bytes: " + Str(fileObj.Size32))
    System.DebugLog("----")

    i = i + 1
Wend

System.DebugLog("Success.")