how to use a proxy service for transferring files

 Hi  I believe you have looked  VFS sample[1]. Can't use it for your scenario?...  to adopt it ... You never want a service EPR ... You can use a VFS URI as the endpoint of the proxy service      <endpoint> <address uri="vfs:file:///home/user/test/out"/> <!--CHANGE--> Your file location </endpoint>   And you can remove the publishWSDL attribute from the proxy service if there is no act serivce  Thanks Indika  [1] http://wso2.org/project/esb/java/2.1.1/docs/samples/transport_samples.html#Sample254    

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Hi, I tried something similar to the sample. the following is the synapse.xml entry. 15 MOVE vfs:sftp://:@:22/home/ file://C:/testvfs/in .*.txt text/plain this opens a vfs listener in a sftp path for .txt file and finally moves it to file://C:/testvfs/in. But, i get the following error when some .txt file is put in the sftp url. [2009-11-11 09:59:19,463] ERROR - VFSTransportListener cannot resolve fileObject org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Badly formed URI . at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.url.UrlFileProvider.findFile(UrlFileProvider.java:85) at org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager .java:662) at org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager .java:602) at org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager .java:570) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.scanFileOrDirectory(VFSTransportLis tener.java:163) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.poll(VFSTransportListener.java:137) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.poll(VFSTransportListener.java:104) at org.apache.axis2.transport.base.AbstractPollingTransportListener$1$1.run(AbstractPollingT ransportListener.java:99) at org.apache.axis2.transport.base.threads.NativeWorkerPool$1.run(NativeWorkerPool.java:58) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: sftp at java.net.URL.(URL.java:574) at java.net.URL.(URL.java:464) at java.net.URL.(URL.java:413) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.url.UrlFileProvider.findFile(UrlFileProvider.java:66) ... 11 more [2009-11-11 09:57:49,291] ERROR - VFSTransportListener cannot resolve fileObject repeatedly: Badly f ormed URI . org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Badly formed URI . at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.url.UrlFileProvider.findFile(UrlFileProvider.java:85) at org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager .java:662) at org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager .java:602) at org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager .java:570) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.scanFileOrDirectory(VFSTransportLis tener.java:163) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.poll(VFSTransportListener.java:137) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.poll(VFSTransportListener.java:104) at org.apache.axis2.transport.base.AbstractPollingTransportListener$1$1.run(AbstractPollingT ransportListener.java:99) at org.apache.axis2.transport.base.threads.NativeWorkerPool$1.run(NativeWorkerPool.java:58) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: sftp at java.net.URL.(URL.java:574) at java.net.URL.(URL.java:464) at java.net.URL.(URL.java:413) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.url.UrlFileProvider.findFile(UrlFileProvider.java:66) ... 11 more Can you please help me to resolve this?

attaching the synapse.xml used Thanks

Could please check with [1]. That user has used sftp successfully [1] http://wso2.org/forum/thread/5742

Hi, Thanks for your inputs. I used a similar sftp URL. but it was not able to connect. i ran a sample program to connect the sftp url using vfs and got the same error. The error was resolved in my sample program by modifying the code to set the StrictHostKeyChecking to no and adding jsch jar in classpath. FileSystemOptions opts = new FileSystemOptions(); SftpFileSystemConfigBuilder.getInstance().setStrictHostKeyChecking(opts, "no"); FileObject file = fsManager.resolveFile(, opts); To apply the same change in wso2 esb, I changed the VFSTransportListener.java code to set the above option in case of an sftp url and tried to build wso2 esb. Is it possible to do the full product build using 'mvn clean install'? It does not seem to create a complete product zip file. Please suggest.

Nice to here that you could get to working .... You can contribute this to Apache Synapse ... mvn clean install should work ..please checks on 'distribution' module Thanks Indika

Hi, Thanks Indika, i found the wso2carbon zip under carbon-platform\carbon\distribution\target directory. But the vfs transport is not listed in axis2.xml by default. Is there any setting that needs to be done to include vfs transport? Thanks, Bhaskar

Nope , You have to manually edit it....

Hi, Thanks Indika. I modified the following files and built esb and tested a VFS proxy service. VFSTransportListener.java (set strict host key checking to 'no' if the url is an sftp url) product/modules/distribution/pom.xml (added jsch jar as dependency) product/modules/distribution/src/main/assembly/dist.xml (included jsch.jar under common outputDirectory) The VFS uploads the file to the sftp url. But the process errors out finally with the following error. VFS could not set the last modified timestamp of a sftp url file. Is there any specific reason for this issue? org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Could not set the last modified timestamp of . at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.DefaultFileContent.setLastModifiedTime(DefaultFileContent .java:196) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.moveTo(AbstractFileObject.java:1001) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.moveOrDeleteAfterProcessing(VFSTran sportListener.java:331) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.scanFileOrDirectory(VFSTransportLis tener.java:262) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.poll(VFSTransportListener.java:154) at org.apache.synapse.transport.vfs.VFSTransportListener.poll(VFSTransportListener.java:117) at org.apache.axis2.transport.base.AbstractPollingTransportListener$1$1.run(AbstractPollingT ransportListener.java:99) at org.apache.axis2.transport.base.threads.NativeWorkerPool$1.run(NativeWorkerPool.java:58) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: 3: Permission denied at com.jcraft.jsch.ChannelSftp.throwStatusError(ChannelSftp.java:2289) at com.jcraft.jsch.ChannelSftp._setStat(ChannelSftp.java:1871) at com.jcraft.jsch.ChannelSftp.setStat(ChannelSftp.java:1845) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.sftp.SftpFileObject.doSetLastModifiedTime(SftpFileObject. java:237) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.doSetLastModTime(AbstractFileObject.ja va:262) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.DefaultFileContent.setLastModifiedTime(DefaultFileContent .java:189) ... 10 more I commented the code in vfs jar which sets the last updated time of the file after uploading it (for sftp alone). Now the above error did not occur. Will this create an issue? Or is there anything which i am missing here? Thanks, Bhaskar

There is a bug in ESB which stop using vfs transport for sftp support. This is fixed in trunk and the latest releases. Rajika