tFTPConnection | How to set a connection timeout?

[Anonymous]

I'm looking to set a connection timeout for the tFTPConnection component.

The SFTP server we're connecting to requires more than the default 20 seconds for a connection... Increasing timeout settings in a straight-up linux SFTP call, or through filezilla, works like a charm.

I'd like to try increasing the timeout in my Talend job to see if that works, but I can't find that option anywhere in the tFTPConnection component.

I am using TOS for Data Integration v6.2.1.

I've tried looking at https://help.talend.com/search/all?query=tFTPConnection, with no luck, and searches in these forums haven't been successful yet.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[TRF]

Hi,

I think you need to elaborate your own try / catch strategy to retry a fixed times when Ftp connection fails.

Regards,
TRF

[Anonymous]

Hi TRF,
Not sure that I follow...  I'm happy to retry the connection, but it looks like connecting to the SFTP server requires more than 20 seconds in general.  So any retries will continue to fail unless I can tweak the connection timeout on the client side.  Changing the server side is not an option in my case.
I'm not sure how to tweak the connection timeout - any guidance on that would be awesome.
Thanks!

[TRF]

You're right, sorry.
Can't find the feature to change the timeout default value.

[Anonymous]

@TRF quite all right, I really appreciate your responding at all.

Right now I'm looking at extending the tFTPConnection component, since the generated code produces these lines...

				com.jcraft.jsch.Channel channel_tFTPConnection_1 = session_tFTPConnection_1
						.openChannel("sftp");
				channel_tFTPConnection_1.connect();

I'll then update that second line to something like...

				channel_tFTPConnection_1.connect(TIMEOUT_VALUE);

... based on the what the library permits, as seen at...

https://epaul.github.io/jsch-documentation/javadoc/com/jcraft/jsch/Channel.html#connect-int

[cterenzi]

Good luck!  Let us know if it works for you, please.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Here is a new feature jira issue: https://jira.talendforge.org/browse/TDI-37257.
Best regards
Sabrina

[Anonymous]

@here

I hacked it for my first pass, by going to...

[PATH_TO]\Talend_Open_Studio_Data_Integration-V6.2.1\plugins\org.talend.designer.components.localprovider_6.2.1.20160704_1411\components\tFTPConnection

Cut into the following file...

tFTPConnection_begin.javajet

For my version of the file, it contained this on line 170...

	channel_<%=cid%>.connect();

And as a dirty hardcoded hack I updated it to...

	channel_<%=cid%>.connect(60000);

... which worked perfectly.

All other FTP components using this connection were fine, of course, which limited my change to just the tFTPConnection component.

My next step will be to add in the value as a configuration option, but that's looking like a pretty trivial exercise at this point.

For what it's worth, this page (and its links) helped me tremendously...

https://www.talendbyexample.com/talend-custom-component-writing.html

Thanks folks for the interest, hopefully this will help others if they needed it.

It's worth noting that this was for a SFTP connection.  I don't know that this approach would necessarily work as-is for other FTP connections (I think they may use different libraries).

[TRF]

Can't find the "like" button, sorry

[cterenzi]

TRF wrote:
Can't find the "like" button, sorry

This.  Good job, cheesedumpling!