OSB move remote file with JCA FTP Adapter

A common requirement is to add a bit of transactional behavior in FTP operations:

Example:

- FTP file1 to remote dir /path/to/myfiles
- FTP file2 to remote dir /path/to/myfiles
- tell remote system that he can start processing file1 and file2

If FTP of file2 fails, you don't want to leave file1 hanging around.
So you should add a fastidious compensation action in the Error Handler of "FTP file2" to undo the "FTP file1" operation.
Also, fastidiously the file could be picked up by remote system before I end transferring it (it should not happen, I guess it depends on the FTP server implementation, it's just one extra concern I have).

This clearly sucks.

Luckily the Oracle JCA FTP Adapter supports moving remote files.

The FTPMove operation with Type="MOVE" has been successfully tested, using Transport Headers to pass the "file name from" and "to" parameters to the JCA Adapter.

Interestingly enough, you can also COPY and DELETE files remotely.

So our flow will be:

- FTP file1 to remote dir /path/to/myfilestemp
- FTP file2 to remote dir /path/to/myfilestemp
- FTP move file1 to /path/to/myfiles
- FTP move file2 to /path/to/myfiles


Ok you will say "what if - ##FTP move file2 to /path/to/myfiles## fails?".
Well, I guess that can happen....