Introduction
Core tasks are the representation of the client network, for example, database, file, server, cloud application, etc. These tasks can be configured to perform actions as per the task’s defined functionalities.
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Sapper has the following types of core nodes that you can incorporate into your automation.
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 | FTP stands for file transfer protocol. | |
 | SFTP stands for secure file transfer protocol or SSH file transfer protocol. | |
  | S3 stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon S3 Reader helps to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere. | |
 | FTP Writer task allows you to connect to your FTP server and write/upload the file on the FTP server based on the selected FTP connection’s configuration | |
 | SFTP Writer task allows you to connect to your SFTP server and write/upload the file on the SFTP server based on the selected SFTP connection’s configuration  | |
 | S3 stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon S3 Writer allow you to write-type snap that can read a binary data stream from its input view and writes it to an S3 file destination. | |
 | HTTP Client task enables you to connect to your preferable cloud application to perform actions such as fetch/modify using available API endpoints and HTTP methods (GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE). | |
 | SQL (structured query language) client task lets you connect/access to your databases and manipulate the databases using SQL connections. | |
 | SOAP (simple object access protocol) client is an XML-based communicative protocol for exchanging information among different systems. |