c++sftplibssh

Download file from SFTP server with libssh and write it to ofstream by using C++?


I wrote the following code from this.

#define MAX_XFER_BUF_SIZE 16384
int main()
{
    char buffer[MAX_XFER_BUF_SIZE];

      //..some content
     access_type = O_RDONLY;
     sftp_file file = sftp_open(sftp, "/home/ra/Desktop/sami/s.txt", access_type, 0);
     ofstream fin("C:/Users/s.txt", ios::binary | ios::in | std::ofstream::out | std::ofstream::app);

     nbytes = sftp_read(file, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
     fin.write(buffer, sizeof(buffer));

But the buffer maximum size is predefined. So it only works for small files. I want to get the SFTP file size which size is much bigger. For that I need to send the data as chunks by append mode.


for (int i=0;i<sizeof(buffer);i++)
{
    fin.write(buffer, buffer[i]);
}

I went through this answer, but i'm stuck in this > How can i solve this issue.


Solution

  • You have removed the loop that is in the Reading a file from the remote computer example.

    Return it back. The important part of the example modified to use ofstream is like:

    char buffer[MAX_XFER_BUF_SIZE];
    
    // ...
    
    for (;;)
    {
        nbytes = sftp_read(file, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
        if (nbytes == 0)
        {
            break; // EOF
        }
        else if (nbytes < 0)
        {
            fprintf(stderr, "Error while reading file: %s\n", ssh_get_error(session));
            sftp_close(file);
            return SSH_ERROR;
        }
    
        fin.write(buffer, nbytes);
        if (!fin)
        {
            fprintf(stderr, "Error writing");
            sftp_close(file);
            return SSH_ERROR;
        }
    }
    
    fin.close();
    if (!fin)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Error writing");
        sftp_close(file);
        return SSH_ERROR;
    }
    

    Imo, fin seems like a bad name to me. Shouldn't it be fout ("file output")?