(Perl) Transition from SFtp.ReadDir to SFtp.ReadDirListing

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated ReadDir method calls with ReadDirListing.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$sftp = chilkat::CkSFtp->new();

# ...
# ...

$handle = $sftp->openDir(".");
# ...
# ...

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The ReadDir method is deprecated:

# dirObj is a SFtpDir
$dirObj = $sftp->ReadDir($handle);
if ($sftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# ...
# ...

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Do the equivalent using ReadDirListing.
# Your application creates a new, empty SFtpDir object which is passed 
# in the last argument and filled upon success.

$dirOut = chilkat::CkSFtpDir->new();
$success = $sftp->ReadDirListing($handle,$dirOut);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# ...
# ...

$sftp->CloseHandle($handle);