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WinSCP can be embedded and scripted as can PSFTP but not FileZilla

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/01

In a quest to perform SFTP in Delphi next to FTP, I first researched what I was up against. A tiny voice in the back of my head said “SFTP is totally unlike FTP” and it was right: SFTP means SSH File Transfer Protocol, not Simple File Transfer Protocol nor FTP over SSH nor FTP over SSL aka FTPS – the latter is supported by Indy but the former isn’t.

I decided against SecureBlackBox (providing SFTPBlackbox) and IPWorks (SSH) as I tried both a while ago for S/MIME support and was disappointed about both the lack of features and documentation; in the end I went for wrapping OpenSSL for the “encrypt-then-sign” process and Indy for the SSMTP part. The merger of the SecureBlackBox and IPWorks made me even less happy.

The Chilkat alternative for SFTP isn’t too compelling either: ActiveX or DLL black-box without a lot of insight on how many people do use it.

So when I had to do SFTP and knew there are no free or open source SFTP components for Delphi available I opted for thinking outside the Delphi realm.

My basic idea was to embed either of these:

  1. Filezilla (as Filezilla on Windows is waaaay faster than WinSCP)
  2. WinSCP (a Windows SCP and SFTP client written in C++ Builder)
  3. PSFTP (the Putty SFTP client)

FileZilla

FileZilla internally uses FzSFtp.exe which is based on PSFTP code (but with some buffers making it faster than PSFTP or WinSCP).

According to the author, neither FzSFtp.exe nor FileZilla can be automated:

FileZilla cannot make any automated transfers at all. Neither FileZilla.exe nor fzsftp.exe (is for SFTP) can be used for any batch processing.

Source: run filezilla tzsftp from batch command line – FileZilla Forums

The WinSCP author commented in a similar fashion:

FileZilla does not have any command line arguments (nor any other way) that allow automatic transfer.

Source: windows – Command line option to download file in FileZilla – Stack Overflow

In addition, FileZilla is always a GUI program, so running it as a console app (which I’d prefer) would be impossible.

WinSCP

WinSCP can be automated in two ways:

  1. The WinSCP.exe command-line allows for a /console and /script switch enabling scripting mode that you can use for Scripting and Task Automation :: WinSCP
  2. A wrapper around WinSCP.exe is availble as WinSCP .NET Assembly and COM Library :: WinSCP which requires both .NET to be installed and (from Delphi) calling through COM which I don’t like much

Since I already had good Delphi wrapping code round starting/waiting-for running processes, I’d opt for using WinSCP.com scripting.

There used to be wrapping code around: Use with Delphi :: Support Forum :: WinSCP

PSFTP

These Using PSFTP to transfer files securely links should get me going:

Chapter 6: Using PSFTP to transfer files securely

Practical examples:

Source locations

For my own reference, the open source locations:

Some semi-random Delphi SSL related postss

During the search above I found the below links that will be useful to me one day:

–jeroen

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Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/03

The #Fellows | Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks post is a very readable and to-the-point introduction to Unity IoC focussing on Dependency Injection. Implementation details of various IoC/DI frameworks differ, so some keywords:

  • Container
  • InjectionConstructor
  • InjectionProperty
  • Inversion of Control
  • Named registration (or keyed registration)
  • PerResolveLifetimeManager
  • Register
  • RegisterType
  • Resolve
  • ResolvedParameter

–jeroen

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nst/JSONTestSuite: A comprehensive test suite for RFC 7159 compliant JSON parsers

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/01

Cool: nst/JSONTestSuite: A comprehensive test suite for RFC 7159 compliant JSON parsers

Which is the result of the presentation seriot.ch – Parsing JSON is a Minefield 💣[WayBack]

Both the tests and presentation are well worth reading.

The graph gives me ambivalent feelings and make me wonder how various .NET and Delphi based JSON parsers stack up.

I wonder how Delphi and C# libraries stack up against these results especially since questions like What is the best JSON library to use for Delphi 10.1? To read and write JSON. – Godfrey Fletcher – Google+ [WayBack].

Hopefully the results by David Berneda will be published soon: I’ll do a quick test with TeeBI json import and the different libraries (System.Json, SuperObject etc)

Edit: Stefan Glienke mentioned he wrote a DUnit testsuite at http://pastebin.com/k5ktBxh9 [WayBack] that shows the built-in TJSONObject [WayBack] parser fails at least 25 of the tests.

–jeroen

via: David Berneda – Google+ [WayBack]

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Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Scripting, Software Development | 1 Comment »

Offline Installer :: JetBrains Developer Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/06

DotPeek offline installers are available:

They are loacated on this page, as ‘Other distribution options’: http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/download/

–jeroen

via Offline Installer :: JetBrains Developer Community.

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If you thought you could do multi-threading, then play “The Deadlock Empire” games

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/04

Slay dragons, learn concurrency! Play the cunning Scheduler, exploit flawed programs and defeat the armies of the Parallel Wizard.

Source: The Deadlock Empire

Via: Face the dragon. Learn the ropes of concurrent programming. – Lars Fosdal – Google+

Source code is available and focuses on C#; maybe one day I’ll make a Delphi version: deadlockempire/deadlockempire.github.io: The Deadlock Empire: Slay dragons, learn concurrency!

BTW: a great book (with nice illustrations at both github and kernel.org) is Source: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? [WayBack]

–jeroen

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Analyzing website performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/27

On my research list:

Slow pages lose users: research from Bing and Google indicates that delays as small as half a second can impact business metrics. To build fast sites, developers need powerful tools to analyze the …

Source: Analyzing website performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog

via:

If you’re developing on Windows.. a must read article on analyzing webperf with Windows Performance Toolkit. – Ilya Grigorik – Google+

–jeroen

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Yes Dorothy, the .NET System.Array Class can throw you a NotSupportedException

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21

It’s been in the System.Array class forever, but remarkably few people do know that it can throw you a NotSupportedException (for instance when calling Add, Insert, Remove, etc).

It does because it implements IList, but not all methods implemented from IList are valid.

And it also indicates that, as the IList Properties allows for IsFixedSize to return false.

A similar case is there for IsReadOnly: then you cannot even modify the values.

Ever since I started teaching .NET/C# classes almost 15 years ago, I warned:

beware when you use IList as not everybody implements all methods.

–jeroen

via:

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Delphi version info table: C# Builder, Delphi 8 through 10.3 Rio and Appbuilder

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/06

I’ve published the Delphi version info table as a Gist: https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/b5891600b73642788b492393710c6070.

Note I need help with these:

The updated script that forms the base of this table is here: https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Native/Delphi/Scripts/List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1

You can pass any of these args to get information

  • Individual columns:
    • CompanyNames, Versions, ProductNames, ProductVersions, BetaNames. ReleaseDates, Architectures, CharacterSets, Defines, CompilerVersions, RTLVersions, DllSuffixes, ProjectVersions, Frameworks, ProductVersions, ProductFullNames, BaseKeyPaths, HKCU-BaseKeyPaths, HKLM-BaseKeyPaths
  • Base of the below table:
    • ProductSummaries
  • Installed info (installation status obtained through the registry):
    • InstalledProductVersions, InstalledProductFullNames, InstalledProductSummaries, InstalledPackages

An elaborate wrapper around the Define column is jedi.inc which is used in many projects (both open source and closed source) to distinguish between various Delphi versions, libraries and platforms at compile time (URL: github.com/project-jedi/jedi/blob/master/jedi.inc)

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Posted in .NET, C#, C# Builder, Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | 5 Comments »

tf: show changeset details on the console

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/02

By default the changeset command in tf.exe shows a dialog showing a list of all files in that changeset.
I wanted that list to be dumped on the console for further processing.

Luckily there is a /noprompt option for that:

call "%~dp0tf.bat" changeset /noprompt %*

The above tf-show-changeset-details-on-console.bat batch file uses tf.bat that hunts for the location of tf.exe.

–jeroen

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.NET/C#: two ways of creating an empty array

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/18

Empty arrays are not used often as arrays usually are about the presence data, not about the absence.

Here are two ways based on the int data type in C# (the original [WayBack] examples [WayBack] are using string, but since string itself is also a kind of array…):

Specify a size of zero:

int[] a = new int[0];

Specify an empty initialisation:

int[] a = new int[] { };

Though many people think arrays are a thing of the past, I think it is one of the first generic types and have their place. For one, enumerating over arrays using foreach is a lot faster in many environments than enumerating over other data types. Another thing is that the fixed nature of arrays can be very beneficial in setting constraints.

That’s why I like the balanced view from Eric Lippert [WayBack] in Arrays considered somewhat harmful – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs [WayBack]

–jeroen

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