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

[joss.wright@xxxxxxxxxx]

Kevin,

Many thanks for your reply, sorry I've caught you at a bad time. I decided to jump in at the deep end and look at the Java URL classes and have found a workaround for #1.

I have created a URLHandler and URLConnection class, for the Sftp API I have used, and used the Eclipse urlHandlers extension point to register my Handler for the "sftp" protocol. Then I simply create a default constructer and empty connect() method in my SftpURLConnection class. I am relying on the assumption that the Team plugin does not use the URL object to create a connection, that's how it looks in the FTP plugin anyway. This approach seems to work and I have had no problems during my testing (so far).

WRT to #3 I was really looking for design feedback, so given your workload once I know about license/copyright notices I will put the release the plugin to the Eclipse community (if they're interested!!) and get some feedback from potential users.

Regards,

Joss





> 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
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>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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