fix(snl): repair the SFTP repository and drop the sftpretty wrapper

[jma]

Problem

invenio documents urn snl-list-files crashes with AttributeError: 'Connection' object has no attribute 'walktree'.

The pysftp → sftpretty migration (ec5f58f9) only swapped the import, so SNLRepository kept calling an API that had moved: walktree() does not exist in sftpretty, cwd() called the cd() context manager without with and silently did nothing, and mkdir() created the URN directories with mode 700 instead of 777. The unit tests of the class had been deleted in 2023, so nothing caught it.

Change

The class needs five SFTP operations, so it now uses paramiko directly, the engine both wrappers were built on. sftpretty is dropped from the dependencies.

• list_files() walks the remote tree, and snl-list-files reports an empty server instead of printing nothing.
• make_dir() keeps mode 0o777 and leaves an existing directory untouched, so an upload can be replayed.
• Both snl-* commands close the connection when they are done.
• The unit tests of the repository are restored.

Deployment

The host key of the server is still verified and a container has no known_hosts file, so it has to be added to the configmap:

SONAR_APP_FTP_SNL_HOST_KEY=sftp.e-helvetica.nb.admin.ch ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAILyMYlnnFQtUBifqkwWy/N9nx0xyayCVqH0pWTR3Zfmg

Without it, the commands fail with SSHException: Server 'sftp.e-helvetica.nb.admin.ch' not found in known_hosts. When the variable is empty, the key is looked up in the user known_hosts file, so development setups are unchanged.

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Walkthrough

The SNL FTP repository now uses Paramiko instead of sftpretty. It supports optional configured host keys, recursive remote file listing, conditional directory creation, and explicit closure of SFTP and SSH clients. Upload and listing CLI commands pass the host-key configuration and close connections. Listing reports when no files exist. Unit and UI tests cover connection setup, file operations, cleanup, and CLI output.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 583c4

SNL commands can hang, leak connections, or fail during listing and concurrent uploads. These reliability issues should be resolved before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: repairing the SNL SFTP repository and removing the sftpretty wrapper.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the SFTP failure, the Paramiko migration, the command changes, deployment configuration, and restored tests.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@sonar/modules/documents/cli/urn.py`:
- Line 138: Wrap the post-connect SNL operations in both commands, including
make_dir() and list(snl_repository.list_files()), in try/finally blocks so
snl_repository.close() always executes after listing consumes the lazy iterator.
If connect() is included in the guarded section, ensure close() safely handles
partial initialization.

In `@sonar/snl/ftp/__init__.py`:
- Line 78: Update SNLRepository.list_files around the S_ISDIR(attribute.st_mode)
check to safely handle entries whose st_mode is None, using an explicit
non-directory fallback so recursive listing continues without TypeError. Add a
fixture covering an SFTP entry with a missing st_mode value.
- Around line 42-48: Update the SSHClient.connect call in the FTP connection
flow to pass bounded timeout values for timeout, banner_timeout, and
auth_timeout, preventing unavailable endpoints from blocking indefinitely. Add
coverage for the unavailable-server path and verify it fails within the
configured bounds.
- Around line 49-50: Update the SFTP setup flow around connect() so any client
created before open_sftp() or chdir() fails is closed, including the SSH client
when SFTP creation fails. Ensure cleanup covers partial initialization without
masking the original exception, then re-raise that exception.
- Around line 54-57: Update the directory-creation handling around
self.client.mkdir in the pathname existence check to catch the already-exists
IOError from concurrent creation, then verify pathname with self.client.stat and
treat it as success only when it is a directory; re-raise other errors or when
the existing path is not a directory.

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• pyproject.toml
• sonar/config_sonar.py
• sonar/modules/documents/cli/urn.py
• sonar/snl/ftp/__init__.py
• tests/ui/documents/test_urn_cli.py
• tests/unit/snl/__init__.py
• tests/unit/snl/ftp/__init__.py
• tests/unit/snl/ftp/test_snl_repository.py

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[PascalRepond]

Don't forget to document the new config variable in the migration workflow