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In-process SFTP server for testing your SFTP related client code.
For pytest, use the sftp_server
and sftp_client
fixtures:
.. code-block:: python
from contextlib import closing
import py.path
def test_open_file(sftp_server, sftp_client):
# Write directly in the server root.
root_path = py.path.local(sftp_server.root)
root_path.join('file.txt').write('content')
# Access the folder via the client
sftp = sftp_client.open_sftp()
assert sftp.listdir('.') == ['file.txt']
with closing(sftp.open('file.txt', 'r')) as data:
assert data.read() == b'content'
This project was started as a fork of https://github.com/carletes/mock-ssh-server created by Carlos Valiente.
The SSH related code was removed to focus solely on the SFTP protocol.
FAQs
Mock SFTP server for testing purposes
We found that mocksftp demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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