Chilkat2-Python

Upload Text to an FTP Server (StringBuilder)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads it to a remote path. The arguments are the StringBuilder, the charset, whether to include a byte-order mark, and the remote file path.

Background: The text-oriented upload: assemble a document — CSV, config, JSON — in a StringBuilder and the method handles encoding as it writes. The charset governs the bytes actually stored, and the byte-order-mark flag is useful when a consuming Windows application expects a BOM.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# Demonstrates the Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads
# it to a remote path.  The 1st argument is the StringBuilder, the 2nd is the charset, the 3rd
# selects whether a byte-order mark is included, and the 4th is the remote file path.

ftp = chilkat2.Ftp2()

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin"

# Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
# from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
ftp.Password = "myPassword"

success = ftp.Connect()
if (success == False):
    print(ftp.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Build the text to upload.
sb = chilkat2.StringBuilder()
sb.Append("name,quantity\n")
sb.Append("widgets,42\n")

# Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
includeBom = False
success = ftp.PutFileSb(sb,"utf-8",includeBom,"public_html/inventory.csv")
if (success == False):
    print(ftp.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("Uploaded text file.")

success = ftp.Disconnect()
if (success == False):
    print(ftp.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()