Net::SFTP from memory instead of file?

[Fearless Fosdick]

I have to sftp some data, but it's not allowed to live on the
filesystem. Short of implementing an sftp client, is there any other
solution I can use?

 

[Anno Siegel]

I have to sftp some data, but it's not allowed to live on the
filesystem. Short of implementing an sftp client, is there any other
solution I can use?

From the documentation of Net::SFTP I gather that the method ->do_write
accepts the data to be written from a string. Where's the problem?

Anno

 

[Fearless Fosdick]

From the documentation of Net::SFTP I gather that the method ->do_write
accepts the data to be written from a string. Where's the problem?

Well, the documentation says that because the author of the module put
perldoc comments in front of internal methods. In fact do_write() does
not stand by itself and can't reasonably be called from outside the
module. I needed to subclass Net::SFTP and hack up the guts of the put()
routine to do what I wanted. I had been hoping to find a cleaner way.