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SFTP Transport Reference

Introduction

The SFTP Transport allows files to be read and written to and from directories over SFTP. Unlike the VFS Transport, it can handle large files because it streams message payloads. The SFTP transport can be used as an inbound or an outbound endpoint. Files can be retrieved from an SFTP server and processed as Mule messages, or Mule messages can be uploaded as files to an SFTP server.

Namespace and Syntax

XML namespace:

xmlns:sftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp"

XML schema location:

http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd

Schema: http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd
Structure: http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/3.3.0/schemadocs/schemas/mule-sftp_xsd/schema-overview.html

Connector syntax:

<sftp:connector name="sftp-default" archiveDir="" archiveTempReceivingDir="/tmp/get"
                archiveTempSendingDir="/tmp/send" autoDelete="true"
                duplicateHandling="throwException" fileAge="60000"
                identityFile="/home/test/.ssh/id_rsa" keepFileOnError="false"
                outputPattern="#[header:originalFilename]" passphrase="passPhrase"
                pollingFrequency="10000" sizeCheckWaitTime="30000"
                tempDirInbound="/tmp/inbound" tempDirOutbound="/tmp/outbound"
                useTempFileTimestampSuffix="true" />

Endpoint syntax:
You can define endpoints two ways:

  1. Prefixed endpoint:

    <sftp:inbound-endpoint user="mule" password="test123" path="/tmp/sftp"
                       host="myhost.com"
                       pollingFrequency="500"
                       name="inboundEndpoint1"/>
<sftp:outbound-endpoint user="mule" password="test123" path="/tmp/sftp"
                        host="myhost.com" name="outboundEndpoint2"
                        keepFileOnError="false"/>

  2. Non-prefixed URI:

    <inbound-endpoint address="sftp://mule:test123@myhost.com/tmp/sftp"/>
<outbound-endpoint address="sftp://mule:test123@myhost.com/tmp/sftp"/>

See the sections below for more information.

Considerations

You would use the SFTP transport if you need to download from or upload to a secured resource accessible via SFTP. This transport does not currently support transactions or retry policies. Some uses for the SFTP transport are downloading data into a database and picking up files and uploading them via SFTP. You can use this transport to implement the file transfer Enterprise Integration Pattern. As explained in the EIP book, the file transfer pattern allows you to loosely couple two applications together, with delays in processing time. If your integration is time-sensitive, you may want to look at implementing the messaging pattern with the JMS trasnport which can give you closer to real-time processing.

Using the SFTP transport allows you to optionally use streaming support for larger files and asynchronous and synchronously chain other endpoints with an SFTP endpoint. It also allows you to use Mule ESBs robust error handling in your Mule application.

The examples on this page shows you how to define SFTP inbound and outbound endpoints in your Mule application.

Features

  • Streaming support of resources

  • For inbound endpoints, poll the resource at a specified interval

  • For outbound endpoints, choices on how to handle duplicate files: throw and exception, overwrite, append a sequence number to the file name

Usage

If you want to include the SFTP transport in your configuration, these are the namespaces you need to define:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:sftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp"
      xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core
        http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/3.2/mule.xsd
        http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp
        http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd">

Then define a connector:

<sftp:connector name="sftp-default"/>

Finally define an inbound and/or outbound endpoint.

  • Use an inbound endpoint if you want new files found on the SFTP site to trigger a Mule flow or service

  • Use an outbound endpoint if you want to upload files to an SFTP site. These files typically start as Mule messages and are converted to files.

<sftp:inbound-endpoint
                    name="inboundEndpoint1"
                    connector-ref="sftp"
                    address="sftp://user:password@host/~/data1"/>
<sftp:outbound-endpoint
                  address="sftp://user:password@host/~/data"
                  outputPattern="#[function:count]-#[function:systime].dat"/>

Rules for using the Module/Transport

On the connector, you define the connection pool size, and your inbound/outbound temporary directories. The endpoint is where you define the authentication information, polling frequency, file name patterns, etc. See below for the full list of configuration options.

one-way and request-response exchange patterns are supported. If an exchange pattern is not defined, 'one-way' is the default.

This is a polling Transport. The inbound endpoint for SFTP uses polling to look for new files. The default is to check every second, but it can be changed via the 'pollingFrequency' attribute on the inbound endpoint.

Streaming is supported by the SFTP transport and is enabled by default. Retries and transactions are not currently supported.

Example Configurations

Mule Flow

The following example saves any files found on a remote SFTP server to a local directory. This demonstrates using an SFTP inbound endpoint and a file outbound endpoint.

Downloading files from SFTP using a Flow

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:sftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp"
      xmlns:file="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file"
      xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xsi:schemaLocation="
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/3.2/mule-file.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/3.2/mule.xsd">

    <!-- This placeholder bean lets you import the properties from the sftp.properties file. -->
    <spring:bean id="property-placeholder" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <spring:property name="location" value="classpath:sftp.properties"/> ❶
    </spring:bean>

    <flow name="sftp2file">
        <sftp:inbound-endpoint host="${sftp.host}" port="${sftp.port}" path="/home/test/sftp-files" user="${sftp.user}" password="${sftp.password}"> ❷
                    <file:filename-wildcard-filter pattern="*.txt,*.xml"/> ❸
                </sftp:inbound-endpoint>
        <file:outbound-endpoint path="/tmp/incoming" outputPattern="#[header:originalFilename]"/> ❹
    </flow>
</mule>

A properties file which holds the SFTP server login credentials is defined on ❶. Next a SFTP inbound endpoint is declared on ❷ which checks the '/home/test/sftp-files' directory for new files every one second by default. ❸ defines a file filter which only sends files ending with .txt or .xml to the outbound endpoint. Any conforming files found on the inbound endpoint are then written to the '/tmp/incoming' local directory with the same file name it had on the SFTP server ❹.

Mule Service

The following example saves any files found on a remote SFTP server to a local directory. This demonstrates using an SFTP inbound endpoint and a file outbound endpoint.

Downloading files from SFTP using a Service

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:sftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp"
      xmlns:file="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file"
      xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xsi:schemaLocation="
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/3.2/mule-file.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/3.2/mule.xsd">

    <!-- This placeholder bean lets you import the properties from the db.properties file. -->
    <spring:bean id="property-placeholder" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <spring:property name="location" value="classpath:sftp.properties"/> ❶
    </spring:bean>

    <model name="sftp2file">
        <service name="sftp2file-service">
            <inbound>
                <sftp:inbound-endpoint host="${sftp.host}" port="${sftp.port}" path="/home/test/sftp-files" user="${sftp.user}" password="${sftp.password}"> ❷
                    <file:filename-wildcard-filter pattern="*.txt,*.xml"/> ❸
                </sftp:inbound-endpoint>
            </inbound>
            <outbound>
               <pass-through-router>
                    <file:outbound-endpoint path="/tmp/incoming" outputPattern="#[header:originalFilename]"/> ❹
                </pass-through-router>
            </outbound>
        </service>
    </model>
</mule>

A properties file which holds the SFTP server login credentials is defined on ❶. Next a SFTP inbound endpoint is declared on ❷ which checks the '/home/test/sftp-files' directory for new files every one second by default. ❸ defines a file filter which only sends files ending with .txt or .xml to the outbound endpoint. Any conforming files found on the inbound endpoint are then written to the '/tmp/incoming' local directory with the same file name it had on the SFTP server ❹.

Mule Flow

The following example uploads files found in a local directory to an SFTP server. This demonstrates using a file inbound endpoint and an SFTP outbound endpoint.

Uploading files via SFTP using a Flow

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:sftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp"
      xmlns:file="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file"
      xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xsi:schemaLocation="
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/3.2/mule-file.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/3.2/mule.xsd">

    <!-- This placeholder bean lets you import the properties from the sftp.properties file. -->
    <spring:bean id="property-placeholder" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <spring:property name="location" value="classpath:sftp.properties"/> ❶
    </spring:bean>

    <flow name="file2sftp">
        <file:inbound-endpoint path="/tmp/outgoing"> ❷
            <file:filename-wildcard-filter pattern="*.txt,*.xml"/> ❸
        </file:inbound-endpoint>
        <sftp:outbound-endpoint host="${sftp.host}" port="${sftp.port}" path="/home/test/sftp-files" user="${sftp.user}" password="${sftp.password}"/> ❹
    </flow>
</mule>

A properties file which holds the stfp server login credentials is defined on ❶. Next a file inbound endpoint is declared on ❷ which checks the '/tmp/outgoing' directory for new files every one second by default. ❸ defines a file filter which only sends files ending with .txt or .xml to the outbound endpoint. Any conforming files found on the inbound endpoint are then written to the '/home/test/sftp-files' remote SFTP directory with the same file name it had on the local filesystem ❹.

Mule Service

The following example uploads files found in a local directory to an SFTP server. This demonstrates using a file inbound endpoint and an SFTP outbound endpoint.

Uploading files via SFTP using a Service

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:sftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp"
      xmlns:file="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file"
      xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xsi:schemaLocation="
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/3.2/mule-file.xsd
          http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/3.2/mule.xsd">

    <!-- This placeholder bean lets you import the properties from the sftp.properties file. -->
    <spring:bean id="property-placeholder" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <spring:property name="location" value="classpath:sftp.properties"/> ❶
    </spring:bean>
    <model name="file2sftp">
        <service name="file2sftp-service">
            <inbound>
                <file:inbound-endpoint path="/tmp/outgoing"> ❷
                    <file:filename-wildcard-filter pattern="*.txt,*.xml"/> ❸
                </file:inbound-endpoint>
            </inbound>
            <outbound>
                <pass-through-router>
                    <sftp:outbound-endpoint host="${sftp.host}" port="${sftp.port}" path="/home/test/sftp-files" user="${sftp.user}" password="${sftp.password}"/> ❹
                </pass-through-router>
            </outbound>
        </service>
    </model>
</mule>

A properties file which holds the stfp server login credentials is defined on ❶. Next a file inbound endpoint is declared on ❷ which checks the '/tmp/outgoing' directory for new files every one second by default. ❸ defines a file filter which only sends files ending with .txt or .xml to the outbound endpoint. Any conforming files found on the inbound endpoint are then written to the '/home/test/sftp-files' remote SFTP directory with the same file name it had on the local filesystem ❹.

exchange patterns / features of the transport
(see transport matrix)

Configuration Reference

Connector

SFTP connectivity

Attributes of <connector…​>

Name Type Required Default Description

maxConnectionPoolSize

integer

no

Required: No Default: disabled If the number of active connections is specified, then a connection pool will be used with active connections up to this number. Use a negative value for no limit. If the value is zero no connection pool will be used.

pollingFrequency

long

no

Required: no Default: 1000 ms The frequency in milliseconds that the read directory should be checked. Note that the read directory is specified by the endpoint of the listening component.

autoDelete

boolean

no

Required: no Default: true Whether to delete the file after successfully reading it.

fileAge

long

no

Required: no Default: disabled Minimum age (in ms) for a file to be processed. This can be useful when consuming large files. It tells Mule to wait for a period of time before consuming the file, allowing the file to be completely written before the file is processed. WARNING: The fileAge attribute will only work properly if the servers where Mule and the sftp-server runs have synchronized time. NOTE: See attribute sizeCheckWaitTime for an alternate method of determining if a incoming file is ready for processing.

sizeCheckWaitTime

long

no

Required: no Default: disabled Wait time (in ms) between size-checks to determine if a file is ready to be processed. Disabled if not set or set to a negative value. This feature can be useful to avoid processing not yet completely written files (e.g. consuming large files). It tells Mule to do two size checks waiting the specified time between the two size calls. If the two size calls return the same value Mule consider the file ready for processing. NOTE: See attribute fileAge for an alternate method of determining if a incoming file is ready for processing.

archiveDir

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled Archives a copy of the file in the specified directory on the file system where mule is running. The archive folder must have been created before Mule is started and the user Mule runs under must have privileges to read and write to the folder.

archiveTempReceivingDir

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled If specified then the file to be archived is received in this folder and then moved to the archiveTempSendingDir while sent further on to the outbound endpoint. This folder is created as a subfolder to the archiveDir. NOTE: Must be specified together with the archiveTempSendingDir and archiveDir attributes.

archiveTempSendingDir

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled If specified then the file to be archived is sent to the outbound endpoint from this folder. This folder is created as a subfolder to the archiveDir. After the file is consumed by the outbound endpoint or the component itself (i.e. when the underlying InputStream is closed) it will be moved to the archive folder. NOTE: Must be specified together with the archiveTempReceivingDir and archiveDir attributes.

outputPattern

string

no

Required: no Default: the message id, e.g. ee241e68-c619-11de-986b-adeb3d6db038 The pattern to use when writing a file to disk. This can use the patterns supported by the filename-parser configured for this connector, by default the Legacy Filename Parser is used.

keepFileOnError

boolean

no

Required: no Default: true If true the file on the inbound-endpoint will not be deleted if an error occurs when writing to the outbound-endpoint. NOTE: This assumes that both the inbound and outbound endpoints are using the SFTP-Transport.

duplicateHandling

duplicateHandlingType

no

Required: no Default: throwException Determines what to do if a file already exist on the outbound endpoint with the specified name. throwException: Will throw an exception if a file already exists overwrite: Will overwrite an existing file addSeqNo: Will add a sequence number to the target filename making the filename unique, starting with 1 and incrementing the number until a unique filename is found The default behavior is to throw an exception.

identityFile

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled An identityFile location for a PKI private key.

passphrase

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled The passphrase (password) for the identityFile if required.

tempDirInbound

string

no

Required: No Default: disabled If specified then Mule tries to create the temp-directory in the endpoint folder if it doesn’t already exist. Ensure that the user Mule is configured to use to access the sftp server has privileges to create a temp folder if required! For inbound endpoints: A temporary directory on the ftp-server from where the download takes place. The file will be moved (locally on the sftp-server) to the tempDir, to mark that a download is taking place, before the download starts. NOTE: A file in the tempDir of an inbound endpoint is always correct (has only been moved locally on the sftp-server) and can therefore be used to restart a failing file transfer.

tempDirOutbound

string

no

Required: No Default: disabled If specified then Mule tries to create the temp-directory in the endpoint folder if it doesn’t already exist. Ensure that the user Mule is configured to use to access the sftp server has privileges to create a temp folder if required! For outbound endpoints: A temporary directory on the sftp-server to first upload the file to. When the file is fully uploaded the file is moved to its final destination. The tempDir will be created as a sub directory to the endpoint. NOTE: A file in the tempDir of an outbound endpoint might not be correct (since the upload takes place to this folder) and can therefore NOT be used to restart a failing file transfer.

useTempFileTimestampSuffix

boolean

no

Required: No Default: disabled Used together with the tempDir - attribute to give the files in the tempDir a guaranteed unique name based on the local time when the file was moved to the tempDir.

Child Elements of <connector…​>

Name Cardinality Description

file:abstract-filenameParser

0..1

Inbound endpoint

Attributes of <inbound-endpoint…​>

Name Type Required Default Description

path

string

no

A file location.

user

string

no

A username.

password

string

no

A password.

host

string

no

An IP address (eg www.mulesoft.com, localhost, 127.0.0.1).

port

port number

no

A port number.

pollingFrequency

long

no

Required: no Default: 1000 ms The frequency in milliseconds that the read directory should be checked. Note that the read directory is specified by the endpoint of the listening component.

autoDelete

boolean

no

Required: no Default: true Whether to delete the file after successfully reading it.

fileAge

long

no

Required: no Default: disabled Minimum age (in ms) for a file to be processed. This can be useful when consuming large files. It tells Mule to wait for a period of time before consuming the file, allowing the file to be completely written before the file is processed. WARNING: The fileAge attribute will only work properly if the servers where Mule and the sftp-server runs have synchronized time. NOTE: See attribute sizeCheckWaitTime for an alternate method of determining if a incoming file is ready for processing.

sizeCheckWaitTime

long

no

Required: no Default: disabled Wait time (in ms) between size-checks to determine if a file is ready to be processed. Disabled if not set or set to a negative value. This feature can be useful to avoid processing not yet completely written files (e.g. consuming large files). It tells Mule to do two size checks waiting the specified time between the two size calls. If the two size calls return the same value Mule consider the file ready for processing. NOTE: See attribute fileAge for an alternate method of determining if a incoming file is ready for processing.

archiveDir

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled Archives a copy of the file in the specified directory on the file system where mule is running. The archive folder must have been created before Mule is started and the user Mule runs under must have privileges to read and write to the folder.

archiveTempReceivingDir

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled If specified then the file to be archived is received in this folder and then moved to the archiveTempSendingDir while sent further on to the outbound endpoint. This folder is created as a subfolder to the archiveDir. NOTE: Must be specified together with the archiveTempSendingDir and archiveDir attributes.

archiveTempSendingDir

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled If specified then the file to be archived is sent to the outbound endpoint from this folder. This folder is created as a subfolder to the archiveDir. After the file is consumed by the outbound endpoint or the component itself (i.e. when the underlying InputStream is closed) it will be moved to the archive folder. NOTE: Must be specified together with the archiveTempReceivingDir and archiveDir attributes.

identityFile

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled An identityFile location for a PKI private key.

passphrase

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled The passphrase (password) for the identityFile if required.

tempDir

string

no

Required: No Default: disabled If specified then Mule tries to create the temp-directory in the endpoint folder if it doesn’t already exist. Ensure that the user Mule is configured to use to access the sftp server has privileges to create a temp folder if required! For inbound endpoints: A temporary directory on the ftp-server from where the download takes place. The file will be moved (locally on the sftp-server) to the tempDir, to mark that a download is taking place, before the download starts. NOTE: A file in the tempDir of an inbound endpoint is always correct (has only been moved locally on the sftp-server) and can therefore be used to restart a failing file transfer. For outbound endpoints: A temporary directory on the sftp-server to first upload the file to. When the file is fully uploaded the file is moved to its final destination. The tempDir will be created as a sub directory to the endpoint. NOTE: A file in the tempDir of an outbound endpoint might not be correct (since the upload takes place to this folder) and can therefore NOT be used to restart a failing file transfer.

useTempFileTimestampSuffix

boolean

no

Required: No Default: disabled Used together with the tempDir - attribute to give the files in the tempDir a guaranteed unique name based on the local time when the file was moved to the tempDir.

No Child Elements of <inbound-endpoint…​>

Outbound endpoint

Attributes of <outbound-endpoint…​>

Name Type Required Default Description

path

string

no

A file location.

user

string

no

A username.

password

string

no

A password.

host

string

no

An IP address (eg www.mulesoft.com, localhost, 127.0.0.1).

port

port number

no

A port number.

outputPattern

string

no

Required: no Default: the message id, e.g. ee241e68-c619-11de-986b-adeb3d6db038 The pattern to use when writing a file to disk. This can use the patterns supported by the filename-parser configured for this connector, by default the Legacy Filename Parser is used.

keepFileOnError

boolean

no

Required: no Default: true If true the file on the inbound-endpoint will not be deleted if an error occurs when writing to the outbound-endpoint. NOTE: This assumes that both the inbound and outbound endpoints are using the SFTP-Transport.

duplicateHandling

duplicateHandlingType

no

Required: no Default: throwException Determines what to do if a file already exist on the outbound endpoint with the specified name. throwException: Will throw an exception if a file already exists overwrite: Will overwrite an existing file addSeqNo: Will add a sequence number to the target filename making the filename unique, starting with 1 and incrementing the number until a unique filename is found The default behavior is to throw an exception.

identityFile

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled An identityFile location for a PKI private key.

passphrase

string

no

Required: no Default: disabled The passphrase (password) for the identityFile if required.

tempDir

string

no

Required: No Default: disabled If specified then Mule tries to create the temp-directory in the endpoint folder if it doesn’t already exist. Ensure that the user Mule is configured to use to access the sftp server has privileges to create a temp folder if required! For inbound endpoints: A temporary directory on the ftp-server from where the download takes place. The file will be moved (locally on the sftp-server) to the tempDir, to mark that a download is taking place, before the download starts. NOTE: A file in the tempDir of an inbound endpoint is always correct (has only been moved locally on the sftp-server) and can therefore be used to restart a failing file transfer. For outbound endpoints: A temporary directory on the sftp-server to first upload the file to. When the file is fully uploaded the file is moved to its final destination. The tempDir will be created as a sub directory to the endpoint. NOTE: A file in the tempDir of an outbound endpoint might not be correct (since the upload takes place to this folder) and can therefore NOT be used to restart a failing file transfer.

useTempFileTimestampSuffix

boolean

no

Required: No Default: disabled Used together with the tempDir - attribute to give the files in the tempDir a guaranteed unique name based on the local time when the file was moved to the tempDir.

No Child Elements of <outbound-endpoint…​>

– Transformers
There are no additional transformers defined for the SFTP transport.

– Filters
There are no additional transformers defined for the SFTP transport.

Schema

Schema: http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sftp/3.2/mule-sftp.xsd
Structure: http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/3.3.0/schemadocs/schemas/mule-sftp_xsd/schema-overview.html

Javadoc API Reference

The Javadoc for this transport can be found here.

Maven

This transport is part of the following Maven module (for version 3.1.1+):

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
  <artifactId>mule-transport-sftp</artifactId>
</dependency>

Best Practices

Place your SFTP login credentials in a file and reference them in the Mule configuration.