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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="Sftp"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>SFTP Adapters</title>
<para>
Spring Integration provides support for file transfer operations via SFTP
</para>
<section id="sftp-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a network protocol which allows you to transfer
files between two computers on the Internet over any reliable stream.
</para>
<para>
SFTP protocol requires secure channel, such as SSH, as well as visibility to client's identity throughout SFTP session.
</para>
<para>
Spring Integration supports sending and receiving files over SFTP by providing two types of <emphasis>client</emphasis>s -
<emphasis>Inbound Channel Adapters</emphasis> and <emphasis>Outbound Channel Adapters</emphasis> as well as convenient
namespace configuration to define these <emphasis>client</emphasis>s.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[xmlns:sftp="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/sftp"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/sftp
http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/sftp/spring-integration-sftp-2.0.xsd"
]]></programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="sftp-session-factory">
<title>SFTP Session Factory</title>
<para>
Before configuring SFTP adapters you must configure <emphasis>Sftp Session Factory</emphasis>. You configure
<emphasis>Sftp Session Factory</emphasis> via regular bean configuration:
Below is a basic configuration:
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<beans:bean id="sftpSessionFactory" class="org.springframework.integration.sftp.session.SftpSessionFactory">
<beans:property name="host" value="loclahost"/>
<beans:property name="privateKey" value="classpath:META-INF/keys/sftpTest"/>
<beans:property name="privateKeyPassphrase" value="springIntegration"/>
<beans:property name="port" value="22"/>
<beans:property name="user" value="kermit"/>
</beans:bean>]]></programlisting>
Now all you need to do is inject this <emphasis>Sftp Session Factory</emphasis> into your adapters.
</para>
<para>
<note>
A more practical way to provide values for <emphasis>Sftp Session Factory</emphasis> would be via Spring's property
placeholder (http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-factory-placeholderconfigurer)
</note>
</para>
</section>
<section id="sftp-inbound">
<title>SFTP Inbound Channel Adapter</title>
<para>
<emphasis>SFTP Inbound Channel Adapter</emphasis> is a special listener that will connect to the FTP server and will listen for
the remote directory events (e.g., new file created) at which point it will initiate a file transfer.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<sftp:inbound-channel-adapter id="sftpAdapterAutoCreate"
session-factory="sftpSessionFactory"
channel="requestChannel"
filename-pattern="*.txt"
remote-directory="/foo/bar"
local-directory="file:target/foo"
auto-create-local-directory="true"
delete-remote-files="false">
<poller fixed-rate="1000"/>
</sftp:inbound-channel-adapter>]]></programlisting>
As you can see form the configuration above you can configure <emphasis>SFTP Inbound Channel Adapter</emphasis> via
<code>inbound-channel-adapter</code> element while also providing values for various attributes such as <code>local-directory</code>
- where files are going to be transfered TO and <code>remote-directory</code> - the remote source directory
as well as other attributes including <code>session-factory</code> which we configured earlier.
</para>
<para>
Some times file filtering based on the simple pattern specified via <code>filename-pattern</code> attribute might not be
sufficient enough. If this is the case, you can use <code>filename-regex</code> attribute to specify Regular expression
(e.g. <code>filename-regex=".*\.test$"</code>). And of course if you need complete control you can use <code>filter</code>
attribute and provide reference to a custom implementation of the
<classname>org.springframework.integration.file.filters.FileListFilter</classname> - a strategy interface for filtering a
group of files.
</para>
<para>
Please refer to the schema for more details on these attributes.
</para>
<para>
It is also important to understand that <emphasis>SFTP Inbound Channel Adapter</emphasis> is a polling consumer and therefore
you must configure a poller (global or local)
Once the file has been transferred to a local directory a Message with <classname>java.io.File</classname> being a
payload will be generated and sent to the channel identified with <code>channel</code> attribute.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>More on File Filtering and Large Files</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Some times the file that just appeared in the monitored (remote) directory is not complete. Typically such file
will be written with some temporary extension (e.g., foo.txt.writing) and then renamed after the writing process finished.
As a user in most cases you are only interested in files that are complete and would like to filter only files that are complete.
To handle these scenarios use filtering support provided via <code>filename-pattern</code>, <code>filename-regex</code>
and <code>filter</code> attributes. We also provide a convenient Regex-based implementation
<classname>org.springframework.integration.sftp.filters.SftpPatternMatchingFileListFilter</classname>.
Once configured all you need is include such filter in your adapter via <code>filter</code> attribute.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<int-sftp:inbound-channel-adapter id="sftpInbondAdapter"
channel="receiveChannel"
session-factory="sftpSessionFactory"
local-directory="file:/local-test-dir"
remote-directory="/remote-test-dir">
<int:poller fixed-rate="1000" max-messages-per-poll="10" task-executor="executor"/>
</int-sftp:inbound-channel-adapter>
<bean id="fileNameFilter"
class="org.springframework.integration.ftp.filters.FtpPatternMatchingFileListFilt"">
<constructor-arg value=".*\.txt$"/>
</bean>]]></programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="sftp-outbound">
<title>SFTP Outbound Channel Adapter</title>
<para>
<emphasis>SFTP Outbound Channel Adapter </emphasis>is a special <classname>MessageHandler</classname> that will connect to the
remote directory and will initiate a file transfer for every file it will receive as a payload of the <classname>Message</classname>.
It also supports several representation of the File so you are not limited to the File object.
Similar to FTP outbound adapter <emphasis>SFTP Outbound Channel Adapter</emphasis> supports the following payloads:
1) <classname>java.io.File</classname> - the actual file object; 2) <classname>byte[]</classname> - byte array that represents
the file contents; 3) <classname>java.lang.String</classname> - represents the file contents.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<int-sftp:outbound-channel-adapter id="sftpOutboundAdapter"
session-factory="sftpSessionFactory"
channel="inputChannel"
charset="UTF-8"
remote-directory="foo/bar"
remote-filename-generator-expression="payload.getName() + '-foo'"/>]]></programlisting>
As you can see form the configuration above you can configure <emphasis>SFTP Outbound Channel Adapter</emphasis> via
<code>outbound-channel-adapter</code>.
Please refer to the schema for more details on these attributes.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>SpEL and SFTP Outbound Adapter</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
As with many other components in Spring Integration, you can benefit from Spring Expression Language (SpEL) when configuring
<emphasis>SFTP Outbound Channel Adapter</emphasis>, by specifying two attributes <code>remote-directory-expression</code> and
<code>remote-filename-generator-expression</code> (see above). Expression evaluation context will have Message as its root object, thus allowing
you to provide expressions which can dynamically compute the <emphasis>file name</emphasis> or the existing <emphasis>directory path</emphasis>
based on the data in the Message. In the example above we are defining <code>remote-filename-generator-expression</code> attribute with expression
value which computes the <emphasis>file name</emphasis> based on its original name while also appending suffix '-foo'.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>