Poll new file from SFTP location

Let’s see how we can poll a new file from SFTP location

Create a project in Anypoint Studio

Add On New or Updated file activity

Add the logger to print incoming filename

Add a logger to print file payload

Configure the SFTP connection

Provide the SFTP details and test the connection

• Working directory – directory within the root directory
• Host name – SFTP machine IP
• Port – SFTP machine port
• Username and password to authenticate the user

Configure the On New or Updated File activity

Key Configurations

• Auto Delete – to delete the polled file
• Move to directory – archiving the polled file to another directory
• Rename to – renaming the polled file
• Scheduling Strategy – this is quite import to make it real time or as n when required. If files are created at particular time then we can schedule it properly
• Matcher – filtering the incoming file based on matcher condition
• Directory – directory under working directory (define in SFTP configuration above) we want to poll
• Recursive – if we want to poll sub directories as well
• Watermark – hold the last execution details and poll the new files only which are created after the last execution

Once configured we can run the application and create a new file in SFTP location

We can see the logs in mule application

Sample Application – sftp-service