@Ben VanderBeek switch to an external mechanism to perform SFTP operations

@stalbert you're saying have NetSuite make a request to some other URL or service, and that URL is responsible for reading from the SFTP and returning file contents?

@Ben VanderBeek yes

ok thanks!

I mention it because I did something similar once a few years ago- I can't remember if it was sending or receiving from SFTP though

i'm just wrestling with the slippery slope of choosing middleware vs point to point integrations. as soon as you lose the benefit of scripting (e.g. i can't just troubleshoot issues inside a NS script), it starts to seem less justified to even use a script - might as well have middleware call SuiteTalk

I once thought that way, but the ease of writing SuiteScript as well as performance over SuiteTalk makes me pick NS native integrations if possible (as you suggest). However, even if I did introduce middleware I'd still want to integrate it to custom purpose-built RESTlets as the endpoints. One can write complex logic in a RESTlet that results in a nice easy to consume input or ouput for the external system/middleware.