Request for stream support

I’d like to request support for streams, so that we can download files via SFTP and pass them to other stream consumers with pipe().

I have been able to do this in an unofficial way like this, but it would be nice if there were a first-class function that could do this, like getStream() for example:

let sftp = new ...
await sftp.connect(...
const stream = sftp.sftp.createReadStream('filename', {encoding: null});
stream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('out.dat'));

My use case is to download a file via SFTP and upload it to Amazon S3, so being able to do that with streams so that I don’t need to store any data locally would be very useful.

[joelharkes]

@Crazometer i think this might have been fixed here: https://github.com/jyu213/ssh2-sftp-client/commit/4a66d255b37091a8d7378bfbcd8c27af3ebdc745

Back when i tried this, it didn’t work.

[joelharkes]

my advice, use 2.4.3

although pumping/piping the create stream still doesn’t work in that version somehow (for me).

keep using:

sftp.sftp.createReadStream('filename', {encoding: 'utf-8'});