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Monitor FTP Transfer Progress

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Demonstrates the progress properties CurBytesReceived, CurBytesReceivedStr, CurBytesSent, CurBytesSentStr, ProgressMonSize, PercentDoneScale, and AutoGetSizeForProgress.

Note: The local paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background: Percentage progress needs a known total, but FTP does not always report a file's size up front — so AutoGetSizeForProgress issues a SIZE command before a download, and ProgressMonSize supplies an expected size when even that is unavailable (a one-shot value consumed by the next transfer). PercentDoneScale sets the resolution of progress callbacks. The current byte counts are exposed both as 32-bit integers and as strings, the string forms avoiding integer-width limits for very large transfers.

Chilkat Unicode C++ Downloads

Unicode C++
#include <CkFtp2W.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkFtp2W ftp;

    ftp.put_Hostname(L"ftp.example.com");
    ftp.put_Username(L"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.put_Password(L"myPassword");

    success = ftp.Connect();
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  AutoGetSizeForProgress sends a SIZE command before a download so percentage-based progress can
    //  be computed.
    ftp.put_AutoGetSizeForProgress(true);

    //  PercentDoneScale sets the value representing one hundred percent in PercentDone callbacks.
    //  1000 gives tenth-of-a-percent resolution.
    ftp.put_PercentDoneScale(1000);

    //  ProgressMonSize is a one-shot expected size for the next download when the size is not
    //  otherwise known.  It is consumed by the next download and reset to 0.
    ftp.put_ProgressMonSize(20485760);

    success = ftp.GetFile(L"public_html/bigfile.zip",L"qa_output/bigfile.zip");
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  After a transfer, the current byte counts are available as 32-bit numbers or as strings (the
    //  string forms avoid integer-size limits).
    wprintf(L"Bytes received: %u\n",ftp.get_CurBytesReceived());
    wprintf(L"Bytes received (str): %s\n",ftp.curBytesReceivedStr());
    wprintf(L"Bytes sent: %u\n",ftp.get_CurBytesSent());
    wprintf(L"Bytes sent (str): %s\n",ftp.curBytesSentStr());

    success = ftp.Disconnect();
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }
    }