Awlexus

Awlexus

I’m trying to stream an xml file over ftp with Stream.resource/3 and SweetXml.stream_tags!/3, but I’m running into a strange issue where sweet_xml raises an error, before chunk arrives, unless I call Enum.to_list/1.

# Function definitions

def stream_file!(client) do
  Stream.resource(fn -> start_file_stream(client) end, &next_file_chunk/1, &stop_file_stream/1)
end

defp start_file_stream(client) do
  Logger.debug("Requesting to stream file")

  with :ok <- :ftp.recv_chunk_start(client.conn, to_charlist(client.credentials.file_path)) do
    client
  end
end

defp next_file_chunk(%{conn: conn} = client) do
  case :ftp.recv_chunk(conn) do
    {:ok, binary} ->
      Logger.debug("Stream file chunk #{byte_size(binary)} bytes)")
      {[binary], client}

    :ok ->
      Logger.debug("Transfer completed successfully")
      {:halt, client}

    error ->
      Logger.error(
        credentials_id: client.credentials.id,
        message: "Unable to stream file",
        reason: error
      )

      {:halt, error}
  end
end

defp next_file_chunk(error), do: {:halt, error}
defp stop_file_stream(_), do: []

# Code that is executed

# conn is the pid from :ftp.open/2
# Credentials holds infos about the file and the credentials for the ftp server
client = %{conn: conn, credentials: credentials}

client
|> stream_file!()
# For debugging
|> Stream.each(&IO.inspect(&1, label: :chunk))
# |> Enum.to_list()
|> SweetXml.stream_tags!(:Mitglied, discard: [:Mitglied])
|> Stream.map(fn {:Mitglied, elem} -> 
  # parse data here
end)
|> Stream.run()

Calling this code produces the following output. If I uncomment |> Enum.to_list() it will work fine and print all the chunks as they come. Any idea what might cause this?

[debug] Requesting to stream file
[error] 3917- fatal: :expected_element_start_tag

** (SweetXml.XmerlFatal) :expected_element_start_tag
    (sweet_xml 0.7.3) lib/sweet_xml.ex:539: anonymous fn/1 in SweetXml.stream!/2
    (elixir 1.14.4) lib/stream.ex:1619: Stream.do_resource/5
    (elixir 1.14.4) lib/stream.ex:1813: Enumerable.Stream.do_each/4
    (elixir 1.14.4) lib/stream.ex:689: Stream.run/1

For reference, I have a separate implementation for streaming files over sftp with sftp_client, which works perfectly. I’ve looked into their implementation, but couldn’t find any meaningful difference.
https://github.com/tlux/sftp_client/blob/v1.4.7/lib/sftp_client/stream.ex#L26-L51

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Does it work if you comment out the Stream.each part?

Awlexus

Awlexus OP

Unfortunatelly no, it doesn’t have an effect at all.

D4no0

D4no0

Are you using a local ftp server, the ftp standard sometimes floats, especially when it comes to old servers.

Awlexus

Awlexus OP

It’s a remote server of a company we collaborate with, so I don’t know any further specifics about it. The same server has been used for a related project, that has been going since 2013. But still, I wonder how that could influence the stream in such a way

D4no0

D4no0

It’s about quirks in protocol, you can query the server and see the software it runs on, at one of my jobs we had some nasty old ftp servers running on windows and erlang client had problems with them time to time.

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

I am aware you likely don’t want to complicate your setup but if I was in your place I’d just periodically download those files via rclone and then process them locally with Elixir. (Or you can download them on-demand as well, Erlang/Elixir can interface with the rest of the CLI tools in the system via ports pretty well.)

Awlexus

Awlexus OP

I don’t think that’s necessary or worth it. The whole file can fit easily in memory and it’s probably never going to be too big for that. Being able to properly stream the file would have been a welcome optimization though.

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

I get what you are saying but diving into a deep rabbit hole might burn you an order of magnitude more time. FTP is old, and not all servers strictly adhere to all parts of the spec. Chasing this down might cost you dearly.

Hence I’d eliminate any potential cause for things spiraling out of control from the get go.

Awlexus

Awlexus OP

Then I’ll just take this advice and just admit defeat. Enum.to_list may stay here for now

D4no0

D4no0

The fun thing is that I had exact this issue at some point, and I can’t remember how I solved it, because it was working, maybe try to search about chunk size, however I might as well be mistaken this with sftp.

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