Streaming SFTP Download

Demonstrates how to download a file chunk by chunk from an SSH server.

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import sys
import chilkat

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

sftp = chilkat.CkSFtp()

#  Any string automatically begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success = sftp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if (success != True):
    print sftp.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
sftp.put_ConnectTimeoutMs(5000)
sftp.put_IdleTimeoutMs(15000)

#  Connect to the SSH server.
#  The standard SSH port = 22
#  The hostname may be a hostname or IP address.

hostname = "www.my-ssh-server.com"
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect(hostname,port)
if (success != True):
    print sftp.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  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):
    print sftp.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
if (success != True):
    print sftp.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Open a file on the server:

handle = sftp.openFile("hamlet.xml","readOnly","openExisting")
if (handle == None ):
    print sftp.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

dataChunk = chilkat.CkByteData()

bEof = False

chunkSize = 10000

while not bEof :

    success = sftp.ReadFileBytes(handle,chunkSize,dataChunk)
    if (success == True):

        #  Do whatever  you wish with the data received...
        #  It is possible that if the EOF is reached, 0 bytes will be returned.
        numBytesReceived = dataChunk.getSize()
        pData = dataChunk.getData()

        print "numBytesReceived = " + str(numBytesReceived)

    else:
        print sftp.lastErrorText()
        break

    bEof = sftp.Eof(handle)

#  Close the file.
success = sftp.CloseHandle(handle)
if (success != True):
    print sftp.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

print "Success."