[Question] - Just wanted to confirm that the SFTP plugin handles incomplete Downloads (and uplaods)

[Jeff Ward]

Massively look app!! This is great!

I reviewed the code for the SFTP and it looks like it does handle incomplete download and uploads by simply over-writing it?

I have a use-case where the machine that WexFlow will:

• Wexflow installed on LocalComputerAAA
• Connect to FTP RemoteServer123
• Wexflow downloads files from RemoteServer123 and saves them to a NAS or Drive connected to LocalComputerAAA
• LocalComputerAAA is frequently restarted and shut down, so I just wanted to confirm its resiliency

Questions

1.) Just to confirm - incomplete files will be 'overwrited' (upload and downloaded
2.) The FTP downloads to the / of where wexflow is hosted on? Where does the FTP task download files to?

• I understand that first the files are downloaded (one by one)
• Then the file mover when each task is complete, will move the file from the root / of wexflow to the destination folder.

Is this correct?

3.) Can you clarify please what the selectFiles property does?

https://github.com/aelassas/wexflow/wiki/Ftp

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Tasks>
  <!--
    Ftp is a sequential task that allows to list, upload, download or delete files over FTP, FTPS or SFTP.
  -->
  <Task id="$int" name="Ftp" description="$string" enabled="true|false">
    <!--  The files loaded by the task having as id $taskId will be sent. -->
    <Setting name="selectFiles" value="$taskId" />
    <Setting name="selectFiles" value="$taskId" />
    <!-- You can add as many selecteFiles as you want.-->
    <!--- FTP command. Possible values: list|upload|download|delete-->
    <Setting name="command" value="list|upload|download|delete" />
    <!--- FTP Protocol. Possible values: ftp|ftps|sftp-->
    <Setting name="protocol" value="ftp|ftps|sftp" />

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Notes

I will have to do some testing of my own to better understand how these work:

To understand how tagging and renaming files work, refer to the documentation of the ListFiles and Xslt tasks.

I read the documentation, and this is still unclear to me. It sounds like some sort of file / task monitor? I'm not quite sure.

Wiki

I will get the Wiki updated with 'Error Handling' in the FTP area once this is confirmed and I understand it.

Thanks so much!

[Akram El Assas]

1. Yes, incomplete files will be overwritten.
2. Files are saved in Wexflow's Temp folder (C:\Wexflow\Temp).
3. selectFiles works as follows.
4. Here is a sample ftp download tagging workflow. Here is a sample upload renaming workflow. Here is the XSLT used for tagging and renaming. You can find a detailed documentation on how tagging and renaming works here.