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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/pkg/sftp/request-readme.md b/vendor/github.com/pkg/sftp/request-readme.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f887274dc --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/pkg/sftp/request-readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# Request Based SFTP API + +The request based API allows for custom backends in a way similar to the http +package. In order to create a backend you need to implement 4 handler +interfaces; one for reading, one for writing, one for misc commands and one for +listing files. Each has 1 required method and in each case those methods take +the Request as the only parameter and they each return something different. +These 4 interfaces are enough to handle all the SFTP traffic in a simplified +manner. + +The Request structure has 5 public fields which you will deal with. + +- Method (string) - string name of incoming call +- Filepath (string) - POSIX path of file to act on +- Flags (uint32) - 32bit bitmask value of file open/create flags +- Attrs ([]byte) - byte string of file attribute data +- Target (string) - target path for renames and sym-links + +Below are the methods and a brief description of what they need to do. + +### Fileread(*Request) (io.Reader, error) + +Handler for "Get" method and returns an io.Reader for the file which the server +then sends to the client. + +### Filewrite(*Request) (io.Writer, error) + +Handler for "Put" method and returns an io.Writer for the file which the server +then writes the uploaded file to. The file opening "pflags" are currently +preserved in the Request.Flags field as a 32bit bitmask value. See the [SFTP +spec](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02#section-6.3) for +details. + +### Filecmd(*Request) error + +Handles "SetStat", "Rename", "Rmdir", "Mkdir" and "Symlink" methods. Makes the +appropriate changes and returns nil for success or an filesystem like error +(eg. os.ErrNotExist). The attributes are currently propagated in their raw form +([]byte) and will need to be unmarshalled to be useful. See the respond method +on sshFxpSetstatPacket for example of you might want to do this. + +### Fileinfo(*Request) ([]os.FileInfo, error) + +Handles "List", "Stat", "Readlink" methods. Gathers/creates FileInfo structs +with the data on the files and returns in a list (list of 1 for Stat and +Readlink). + + +## TODO + +- Add support for API users to see trace/debugging info of what is going on +inside SFTP server. +- Unmarshal the file attributes into a structure on the Request object. |