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Check Whether the Last SFTP Read Failed

Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.LastReadFailed method, which returns whether the most recent read for a handle failed. The only argument is the handle. A normal end-of-file is not a failure.

Background: A chunked read loop needs to tell three outcomes apart: more data, a clean end-of-file, and an actual error such as a dropped connection or a revoked handle. LastReadFailed isolates the error case — it is false on a normal EOF read (which succeeds with zero bytes) and true for an empty, malformed, or already-closed handle — so the loop can stop cleanly on EOF but bail out with an error message on a genuine failure.

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#include <CkSFtpW.h>
#include <CkBinDataW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the SFtp.LastReadFailed method, which returns whether the most recent read for a
    //  handle failed.  The only argument is the handle.  A normal end-of-file is NOT a failure.

    CkSFtpW sftp;

    //  Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
    int port = 22;
    success = sftp.Connect(L"sftp.example.com",port);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  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.
    const wchar_t *password = L"mySshPassword";

    success = sftp.AuthenticatePw(L"mySshLogin",password);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

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

    const wchar_t *handle = sftp.openFile(L"subdir/data.txt",L"readOnly",L"openExisting");
    if (sftp.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    bool reading = true;
    int chunkSize = 4096;
    CkBinDataW bd;
    while (reading) {
        success = sftp.ReadFileBd(handle,chunkSize,bd);

        //  Distinguish an actual read failure from a normal EOF.  On EOF the read succeeds, returns
        //  zero bytes, and LastReadFailed is false.
        if (sftp.LastReadFailed(handle)) {
            wprintf(L"Read failed: %s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        reading = !sftp.Eof(handle);
    }

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

    wprintf(L"Read %d bytes with no read failures.\n",bd.get_NumBytes());

    sftp.Disconnect();
    }