cftp 0.1b0

FTP-like client for interacting with cloud storage

Introduction

The cftp package provides an ftp-like interface to cloud-based storage services. It is basically a wrapper. It abstracts the user from the particulars of specific cloud storage services by exposing a common interface. Accessing the interface is simple. Instantiate a class corresponding to a desired cloud storage service (eg, Amazon S3). The class has methods corresponding to common ftp client commands.

The current version includes the four files noted below.

1. base.py - abstract base class for cloud ftp client

2. base_exceptions.py - exceptions raised by base.py

3. s3.py - ftp-like client interface to Amazon’s S3 service

4. s3_exceptions.py - exceptions raised by s3.py

Over time, this package may be extended to include an ftp-like client interface to the DropBox storage services. That functionality would be implemented as a sub-class of base.py, just as s3.py is a sub-class. The same is true for other cloud-based storage services that offer an API.

Installation

Install using pip or easy_install. The cftp package does require Amazon’s boto3 package, which exposes an API for controlling AWS objects using python. The boto3 package will be automatically installed (via pip or easy_install), since it is listed as a dependency in this package.

Configuration

Before using this package, you will need to setup AWS authentication credentials as required by boto3. See the following URL:

https://boto3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/quickstart.html#configuration