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Get the Type of an Active SSH Channel

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.GetChannelType method, which returns the type of the channel at a zero-based enumeration index. The only argument is the index — an enumeration position, not a channel number. Values include session, x11, forwarded-tcpip, and direct-tcpip.

Background: Paired with GetChannelNumber, this turns the channel collection into a readable inventory of what a connection is currently doing — which channels are running commands (session) versus tunneling TCP traffic (direct-tcpip). That is valuable for diagnostics and for application code that manages several channel kinds at once. An out-of-range index causes the string-returning method to report failure.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  Demonstrates the Ssh.GetChannelType method, which returns the type of the channel at a
#  zero-based enumeration index.  The only argument is the index, which is an enumeration
#  position and not a channel number.  Values include "session" and "direct-tcpip".

ssh = chilkat.CkSsh()

sshPort = 22
success = ssh.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort)
if (success == False):
    print(ssh.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

#  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.
password = "mySshPassword"

success = ssh.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password)
if (success == False):
    print(ssh.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

channelNum = ssh.OpenSessionChannel()
if (channelNum < 0):
    print(ssh.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

#  Enumerate the active channels and report each one's number and type.
n = ssh.get_NumOpenChannels()

for i in range(0,n):
    chNum = ssh.GetChannelNumber(i)
    chType = ssh.getChannelType(i)
    if (ssh.get_LastMethodSuccess() == False):
        print(ssh.lastErrorText())
        sys.exit()

    print("Channel " + str(chNum) + " is of type " + chType)

ssh.Disconnect()