Mocking SFTP, FTP, FTPS, Local File System Server in Java

Question

I need to test FTP/FTPS/SFTP/Local File System protocols in Java.

I need a mock server which can be used in any of these methods.

I could find a MockFTPServer. According to my understanding, it can be used only for simple FTP protocol and not for FTPS/SFTP/Local File System.

Can anybody suggest if there is any mock implementation available for a server which supports FTP/FTPS/SFTP/Local File System in Java?

Thanks,

Vijay Bhore

There is a similar post here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6037623/any-good-in-memory-sftp-servers-for-java. I wonder if this is what your are looking for. — Tushar Mishra, Feb 28 '13 at 10:16
Perhaps Apache Camel? It has support for FTP/SFTP/etc... and it has many built-in testing features using mock services... — lincolnadym, Feb 08 '17 at 02:16
Have you find an answer for this question ? It might be difficult to achieve this goal regarding the complexity of your client. At work, I wrote an abstract API with all the different implementations in order to access those different types of server in the same way, regardless the server (with some specificities due to our activities). And we had to run the tests for each protocol on real and specifics servers. It would have been nice to develop a test suite for all those by implementing a strategy pattern, for exemple, and systematically run the tests with Maven. — Alex C., Apr 26 '17 at 09:06

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 14 '18 at 13:34

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There is Fake SFTP server rule. It is a rule/library for JUnit 4 that runs an SFTP server during test. It provides convenience method that help you to put files onto the server and get files from it.

Full Disclosure: I'm the author of Fake SFTP server rule.

edited Sep 14 '18 at 13:34

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answered Mar 27 '18 at 19:10

Stefan Birkner

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Any support for TLS (for ftps)? – Sampisa Feb 07 '20 at 08:41
Hello @Stefan Birkner is there any chance to put it to work with Spock Framework ? If not, did you know an equivalent ? thx a lot – Patrick Ferreira Feb 11 '22 at 14:27

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '21 at 10:50

The questions is a bit older, but I post my answer anyway as it might help someone else as well.

I´ve written an article on how create a mock sftp server using Testcontainers and the atmoz/sftp Docker image, which is adaptable to your other requirements as well.

The full example can be seen here

You would define your TestContainer with SFTP like that

 private static final GenericContainer sftp = new GenericContainer(
            new ImageFromDockerfile()
                    .withDockerfileFromBuilder(builder ->
                            builder
                                    .from("atmoz/sftp:latest")
                                    .run("mkdir -p /home/" + USER + "/upload; chmod -R 007 /home/" + USER)
                                    .build()))
            //.withFileSystemBind(sftpHomeDirectory.getAbsolutePath(), "/home/" + USER + REMOTE_PATH, BindMode.READ_WRITE) //uncomment to mount host directory - not required / recommended
            .withExposedPorts(PORT)
            .withCommand(USER + ":" + PASSWORD + ":1001:::upload");

When you need an FTPS server or any other protocoll, you can pick another image like this for example and adapt the container configuration. https://hub.docker.com/r/bozorgiyan/ftps-server

As for the Local File System, I´m not sure if there is anything special required. With JUnit 5 you can easily create a temporary directory like so

@TempDir
File mockFileSystemDirectory;

And you can create a util class that rewrites your paths to that directory like so:

public static File convertToFakeFileSystem(File yourFile, File fakeFileSystem) {
    return new File(fakeFileSystem.getAbsolutePath() + yourFile
            .getAbsolutePath()
            .replaceAll("C://", "/"));
}

Thanks to the answer. Can I simulate SFTP with RSA key? – AsfK Feb 07 '22 at 12:06 — AsfK, Feb 07 '22 at 12:06

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