[Babeldoc-devel] On a brighter note (SFTP Scanner Impl) ...

[David K. <dav...@al...>]

Hi again, everybody!

I felt like tossing off a slightly more happy note to the
list, in addition to my threading problems... :-) Anyway:

I have put together a new little scanner implementation,
that I needed for my current project at work, namely an
SFTP scanner. Initially based on the current FTP scanner
but subsequently restructured a bit, and using ideas from
the Jakarta Commons VFS sandbox project and their SFTP
implementation, with the JSch library underneath (same as
used by the Jakarta VFS).

Highlights:
- Overall functionality pretty much the same as for the
   FTP scanner, including remote move from an "incoming"
   to a "processed" folder, as well as a local backup,
   recursive scanning etc.
- No compression support (could not get it to work in a
   reliable way. Yet.)
- Initially only tested password-based authentication,
   but planning on doing public-key-based auth as well.
- Opens several (currently capped at fixed number of 5,
   but that will be configurable) channels to the SFTP
   server, for *much* better scanning performance.
- Not I18N-enabled yet, but easy enough to do.

Underlying library and inspirational code all using a
compatible license for incorporation inside Babeldoc.

I have it as part of a company specific module, at this
time, but I would be happy to submit it for review and
consideration, and in that case *with* I18N done... It
could certainly use a bit more widespread testing too.

Anybody interested? If so, recommended next step?

/David