The first pass at this has been completed and the effort is available as part of the CPP_UTILS package found here:
https://github.com/nkolban/esp32-snippe ... /cpp_utils
This should be enough to get us all going and can serve as a base for interest and enhancements.
Here are some preliminary docs:
FTP Server
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a technology specification that allows one to request files from a remote server or store files to a remote server. On the popular operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac, there are both FTP Server implementations and FTP Client implementations. For the ESP32, an implementation of an FTP server component is available. When used, it allows the ESP32 to become an FTP server that will respond to remote FTP client requests to send and receive files. This assumes that that an implementation of a Posix compliant file system has been made available such as found with the SPIFFs or FAT components.
To use the FTP server technology, an ESP32 should be network connected (eg. WiFi) and then create and configured an instance of the FTPServer C++ class.
For example:
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FTPServer* ftpServer = new FTPServer();
ftpServer->setCallbacks(new FTPFileCallbacks());
ftpServer->start();
• void onStoreStart(std::string fileName) – Called at the start of a store request when the client wishes to store a new file.
• size_t onStoreData(uint8_t* data, size_t size) – Called repeatedly to provide a new chunk of data from the client to the server as part of the store request.
• void onStoreEnd() - Called at the end of store request to indicate that the file transfer has been completed.
• void onRetrieveStart(std::string fileName) – Called at the start of a retrieve request when the client wishes to retrieve a file.
• size_t onRetrieveData(uint8_t* data, size_t size) – Call repeatedly when the client is ready for the next chunk of data. The return from this call is the size of data to be returned. To indicate that there is no further data, return 0.
• void onRetrieveEnd() - Called when the data has been sent to the client.
• std::string onDir() - Return a listing of the current directory.
An implementation of this class called FTPFileCallbacks is provided which maps these commands to the Posix file-system.
An FTP Server listens on a TCP/IP port number. The default is 21. Should we wish to specify our own port number, we can call setPort(portNumber) prior to calling start().
Since an FTP client can retrieve and store data, we may wish to include degrees of security. The most basic technique is that of a userid/password pair. By default, the ESP32 class doesn't require these but if we wish, we can enable that capability by calling setCredentials(userid, password) prior to calling start(). If configured in this manner, then the FTP client must provide a userid/password pair that match before further access will be granted. Note that FTP (by default) is inherently insecure as the data (including userid/password pairs) are transmitted in the clear without encryption. While various FTP implementations can and do provide transport channel level encryption using SSL/TLS, this has not yet been implemented in this project.