Re: [platform-vcm-dev] SFTP Team Plugin announce/help

[Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Joss,

Sorry we nobody has responded to this:  we're getting to the busy end of the 2.1 cycle.

Wrt. #2 - I had forwarded your question to someone else who provides this type of advice.

Wrt #1 and #3, we would need to find time to have a look at the code. Since we haven't worked on this code in awhile and since it wasn't designed to be extensible, I can't comment on how easy or hard it would be to make the changes you've suggested and its going to take someone some time to get context again.

I'll be frank: I'm not sure when we can get to this; it might take some time.  You unfortunately have caught us at a very busy time.  We want to help though!

Kevin

joss.wright@xxxxxxxxxx Sent by: platform-vcm-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/20/2003 05:28 AM Please respond to platform-vcm-dev

To:        platform-vcm-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx         cc:                 Subject:        [platform-vcm-dev] SFTP Team Plugin announce/help

I have just finished developing an SFTP Team Plugin for Eclipse. This is a rework of the FTP Plugin, I have really only changed the FTPClient class and replaced all the FTP methods with equivalent SFTP motheds, e.g. changeDirectory, createDirectory, put, get etc.. I have used a lightwieght open source SSH API (JSch) with great success but I have a couple of issues that I would appreciate any help with:

1. Sites are stored as URLs but there is no protocol handler for sftp and therefore I get a MalformedURLException if I try and create a URL of the form sftp://hostname/path. I have got a workaround by actually creating a URL as an ftp URL, i.e. ftp://hostname/path, I then prefix this with an 's' in the getDecription() method of the Site class. I don't really like doing this and wondered if there is anyway to create a 'dummy' sftp protocol handler to allow me to create an sftp URL. As far as I can see the Team Plugin does not use the URL for anything other than storing a URL to the relevant site.

2. Although I have really only changed the FTPClient class I had to copy every other FTP class and creat SFTP equivalents as there is no way of plugging in different client classes. Apart from a slight change to the FTPConfigurationWizardPage and the error messages, I have amde no other changes. I hope to release this plugin under the CPL license but I am not sure to what extent I can reuse the renamed classes? I had intended using an IBM Copyright notice at the top of each source file and add myself as a contributor, would this be enough?

3. Finally I would like to be able to switch between relative and absolute URLs, so when you   create a site you can decide whether to log into your 'home' directory or to start from 'root'. I beleive this may vary from server to server but does the idea of a checkbox, in the SFTPConfigurationWizardPage, that allows you to select either 'absolute' or 'relative' sound OK.

Regards,

Joss Wright



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