(Chilkat for Android™ API) SFTP Simplified Upload

Demonstrates how to upload a file to an SSH server in the simplest way -- by calling UploadFileByName and passing remote and local filepaths.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {
  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    TextView tv = new TextView(this);
    String outStr = "";

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

    CkSFtp sftp = new CkSFtp();

    //  Any string automatically begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
    boolean success;
    success = sftp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
    if (success != true) {
        outStr += sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
        tv.setText(outStr);
        setContentView(tv);
        return;
    }

    //  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
    sftp.put_ConnectTimeoutMs(15000);
    sftp.put_IdleTimeoutMs(15000);

    //  Connect to the SSH server.
    //  The standard SSH port = 22
    //  The hostname may be a hostname or IP address.
    int port;
    String hostname;
    hostname = "www.my-ssh-server.com";
    port = 22;
    success = sftp.Connect(hostname,port);
    if (success != true) {
        outStr += sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
        tv.setText(outStr);
        setContentView(tv);
        return;
    }

    //  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 != true) {
        outStr += sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
        tv.setText(outStr);
        setContentView(tv);
        return;
    }

    //  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
    success = sftp.InitializeSftp();
    if (success != true) {
        outStr += sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
        tv.setText(outStr);
        setContentView(tv);
        return;
    }

    //  Upload from the local file to the SSH server.
    //  Important -- the remote filepath is the 1st argument,
    //  the local filepath is the 2nd argument;
    String remoteFilePath;
    remoteFilePath = "hamlet.xml";
    String localFilePath;
    localFilePath = "c:/temp/hamlet.xml";

    success = sftp.UploadFileByName(remoteFilePath,localFilePath);
    if (success != true) {
        outStr += sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
        tv.setText(outStr);
        setContentView(tv);
        return;
    }

    outStr += "Success." + "\n";
    tv.setText(outStr);
    setContentView(tv);
  }

  static {
      // Important: Make sure the name passed to loadLibrary matches the shared library
      // found in your project's libs/armeabi directory.
      //  for "libchilkat.so", pass "chilkat" to loadLibrary
      //  for "libchilkatemail.so", pass "chilkatemail" to loadLibrary
      //  etc.
      // 
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}