Hello fellow redditors and sorry if this is not the right place. I appreciate this may be better suited for the WINSCP forums however someone here may be able to tell me what I am doing wrong.

I am trying to create a function that when called will list the objects in a remote directory. I am basing it off a function i created that downloads files but instead of calling the GetFiles method I am just calling the ListDirectory method.

The issue is when i run this function (with the variables already containing the relevant Ftp server hostname, UN/PW, SSHhostkeyfingerprint and FTP Directory) it doesn’t error out but nothing happens

Function SFTPSessionOpen {

param

    (

    [string]$FtpServer,

    [string]$FtpDirectory,

    [string]$FtpUsername,

    [string]$FtpPassword,

    [string]$FtpSshHostKeyFingerprint



    )   
## Load WinSCP .NET assembly

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("C:Program Files (x86)WinSCPWinSCPnet.dll") | Out-Null

## Setup session options

$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions

$sessionOptions.Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Sftp

$sessionOptions.HostName = $FtpServer

$sessionOptions.UserName = $FtpUsername

$sessionOptions.Password = $FtpPassword

$sessionOptions.SshHostKeyFingerprint = $FtpSshHostKeyFingerprint

$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session

$mycollection = @()

try {

## Connect

$session.Open($sessionOptions)

$mycollection = $session.ListDirectory($FtpDirectory).Files

}

finally {

$session.Dispose()

}

}

I would have expected it to pull the directory list into the $mycollection variable when called but it remains empty. If i run part of the function individually (establish a session then use $session.ListDirectory it will list files)

Any help is appreciated!

##Prod
$FtpServer = "clientftp.rimbees.com"

$FtpUsername = "Username"
$Ftppassword = "Password"

$FtpSshHostKeyFingerprint = "ssh-rsa 2048 Wi2ZFNQvI6xvklKznGlZ1Cv5vGB3tV0dtAPH6TFMrJk"

$FtpDirectory = "./"

$mycollection = SFTPSessionOpen -FtpServer $FtpServer -FtpUsername $FtpUsername -FtpPassword $Ftppassword -FtpSshHostKeyFingerprint $FtpSshHostKeyFingerprint -FtpDirectory $FtpDirectory

I call the function with the pre defined variables and expect it to at least establish a session. The end goal is that i run it and it display all the files on the remote directory (in this case root folder)

It works when i run the section in separate blocks however as a function ( i tried using a breakpoint and debugging) it seems to never establish the connection/open the session.