Java Program For Downloading Folder Content recursively from SFTP Server
How to download folder from SFTP Server (Secure File Transfer Protocol) is the common use case for Java developer who wants to download folder from SFTP. To write a java program to download from SFTP, you will need to download JSCH jar file.
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Below Java program is for downloading folder/directory content recursively from SFTP server.
/**
* Created on Dec 27, 2016 Copyright(c) http://kodehelp.com All Rights Reserved.
*/
package com.kodehelp.sftp;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Vector;
import com.jcraft.jsch.Channel;
import com.jcraft.jsch.ChannelSftp;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSch;
import com.jcraft.jsch.Session;
import com.jcraft.jsch.SftpException;
/**
* @author http://kodehelp.com
*
*/
public class DownloadRecursiveFolderFromSFTP {
static ChannelSftp channelSftp = null;
static Session session = null;
static Channel channel = null;
static String PATHSEPARATOR = "/";
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
String SFTPHOST = "10.20.30.40"; // SFTP Host Name or SFTP Host IP Address
int SFTPPORT = 22; // SFTP Port Number
String SFTPUSER = "SFTPUserName"; // User Name
String SFTPPASS = "SFTPPassword"; // Password
String SFTPWORKINGDIR = "/home/kodehelp/download"; // Source Directory on SFTP server
String LOCALDIRECTORY = "C:\\temp"; // Local Target Directory
try {
JSch jsch = new JSch();
session = jsch.getSession(SFTPUSER, SFTPHOST, SFTPPORT);
session.setPassword(SFTPPASS);
java.util.Properties config = new java.util.Properties();
config.put("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");
session.setConfig(config);
session.connect(); // Create SFTP Session
channel = session.openChannel("sftp"); // Open SFTP Channel
channel.connect();
channelSftp = (ChannelSftp) channel;
channelSftp.cd(SFTPWORKINGDIR); // Change Directory on SFTP Server
recursiveFolderDownload(SFTPWORKINGDIR, LOCALDIRECTORY); // Recursive folder content download from SFTP server
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (channelSftp != null)
channelSftp.disconnect();
if (channel != null)
channel.disconnect();
if (session != null)
session.disconnect();
}
}
/**
* This method is called recursively to download the folder content from SFTP server
*
* @param sourcePath
* @param destinationPath
* @throws SftpException
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static void recursiveFolderDownload(String sourcePath, String destinationPath) throws SftpException {
Vector<ChannelSftp.LsEntry> fileAndFolderList = channelSftp.ls(sourcePath); // Let list of folder content
//Iterate through list of folder content
for (ChannelSftp.LsEntry item : fileAndFolderList) {
if (!item.getAttrs().isDir()) { // Check if it is a file (not a directory).
if (!(new File(destinationPath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename())).exists()
|| (item.getAttrs().getMTime() > Long
.valueOf(new File(destinationPath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename()).lastModified()
/ (long) 1000)
.intValue())) { // Download only if changed later.
new File(destinationPath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename());
channelSftp.get(sourcePath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename(),
destinationPath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename()); // Download file from source (source filename, destination filename).
}
} else if (!(".".equals(item.getFilename()) || "..".equals(item.getFilename()))) {
new File(destinationPath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename()).mkdirs(); // Empty folder copy.
recursiveFolderDownload(sourcePath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename(),
destinationPath + PATHSEPARATOR + item.getFilename()); // Enter found folder on server to read its contents and create locally.
}
}
}
}
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