How to send multiple data (conn:send()) with the new SDK (NodeMCU)

Question

I\'ve been reading the NodeMCU documentation and several closed issues about the change of SDK that previouly allowed to send multiple data streams (acting like a queued net

Answer 1

Thank you for the reply. I actually added the header you mentioned, I didn't know that was necessary and I also removed the sck argument in the sender function. My first code was actually working, I don't know what was wrong last time.

Anyway, it helped me understanding what was happening: the following code seems to concatenate the response array, since the event sent of the socket calls back the sender function (sck:on("sent", sender))

sck:send(table.remove(response,1))

In fact, table.remove(array, 1) returns the first item of the array, and removes this item of the array. Calling this line multiple times has the effect to read through it, item by item.

For the sake of simplicity, here is the code of a simple webserver able to serve multiple files:

header = "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nServer: NodeMCU on ESP8266\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
srv=net.createServer(net.TCP)
srv:listen(80,function(conn)
    conn:on ("receive", function(sck, req)
        local response = {header}

        tgtfile = string.sub(req,string.find(req,"GET /") +5,string.find(req,"HTTP/") -2 )
        if tgtfile == "" then tgtfile = "index.htm" end
        local f = file.open(tgtfile,"r")
        if f ~= nil then
            response[#response+1] = file.read()
            file.close()
        else
            response[#response+1] = ""
            response[#response+1] = tgtfile.." not Found - 404 error."
            response[#response+1] = "Home"
        end
        collectgarbage()
        f = nil
        tgtfile = nil

        local function sender ()
            if #response>0 then sck:send(table.remove(response,1))
            else sck:close()
            end
        end
        sck:on("sent", sender)
        sender()
    end)
end)

This example was taken from this instructables and fixed to work with the new SDK (which do not allow multiple :send anymore). Please let me know if this code has some issues.

I don't know what is the size limit of the files though. Nevertheless, I manage to append more than 2Ko to the response variable and send it at once without any issue.