--[[ A telnet server T. Ellison, May 2018 This version is more complex than the simple Lua example previously provided in our distro. The main reason is that a single Lua command can produce a LOT of output, and the server has to work within four constraints: - The SDK rules are that you can only issue one send per task invocation, so any overflow must be buffered, and the buffer emptied using an on:sent cb - Since the interpeter invokes a node.output cb per field, you have a double whammy that these fields are typically small, so using a simple array FIFO would rapidly exhaust RAM. - For network efficiency, you want to aggregate any FIFO buffered into sensible sized packet, say 1024 bytes, but you also need to handle the case when larger string span multiple packets. However, you must flush the buffer if necessary. - The overall buffering strategy needs to be reasonably memory efficient and avoid hitting the GC too hard, so where practical avoid aggregating small strings to more than 256 chars (as NodeMCU handles <256 using stack buffers), and avoid serial aggregation such as buf = buf .. str as this hammers the GC. So this server adopts a simple buffering scheme using a two level FIFO. The node.output cb adds cb records to the 1st level FIFO until the #recs is > 32 or the total size would exceed 256 bytes. Once over this threashold, the contents of the FIFO are concatenated into a 2nd level FIFO entry of upto 256 bytes, and the 1st level FIFO cleared down to any residue. The sender dumps the 2nd level FIFO aggregating records up to 1024 bytes and once this is empty dumps an aggrate of the 1st level. ]] local node, table, tmr, wifi, uwrite, tostring = node, table, tmr, wifi, uart.write, tostring local function telnet_listener(socket) local insert, remove, concat, heap, gc = table.insert, table.remove, table.concat, node.heap, collectgarbage local fifo1, fifo1l, fifo2, fifo2l = {}, 0, {}, 0 local s -- s is a copy of the TCP socket if and only if sending is in progress local wdclr, cnt = tmr.wdclr, 0 local function debug(fmt, ...) if (...) then fmt = fmt:format(...) end uwrite(0, "\r\nDBG: ",fmt,"\r\n" ) cnt = cnt + 1 if cnt % 10 then wdclr() end end local function flushGarbage() if heap() < 13440 then gc() end end local function sendLine() -- debug("entering sendLine") if not s then return end if fifo2l + fifo1l == 0 then -- both FIFOs empty, so clear down s s = nil -- debug("Q cleared") return end flushGarbage() if #fifo2 < 4 then -- Flush FIFO1 into FIFO2 insert(fifo2,concat(fifo1)) -- debug("flushing %u bytes / %u recs of FIFO1 into FIFO2[%u]", fifo1l, #fifo1, #fifo2) fifo2l, fifo1, fifo1l = fifo2l + fifo1l, {}, 0 end -- send out first 4 FIFO2 recs (or all if #fifo2<5) local rec = remove(fifo2,1) .. (remove(fifo2,1) or '') .. (remove(fifo2,1) or '') .. (remove(fifo2,1) or '') fifo2l = fifo2l - #rec flushGarbage() s:send(rec) -- debug( "sending %u bytes (%u buffers remain)\r\n%s ", #rec, #fifo2, rec) end local F1_SIZE = 256 local function queueLine(str) -- Note that this algo does work for strings longer than 256 but it is sub-optimal -- as it does string splitting, but this isn't really an issue IMO, as in practice -- fields of this size are very infrequent. -- debug("entering queueLine(l=%u)", #str) while #str > 0 do -- this is because str might be longer than the packet size! local k, l = F1_SIZE - fifo1l, #str local chunk -- Is it time to batch up and flush FIFO1 into a new FIFO2 entry? Note that it's -- not worth splitting a string to squeeze the last ounce out of a buffer size. -- debug("#fifo1 = %u, k = %u, l = %u", #fifo1, k, l) if #fifo1 >= 32 or (k < l and k < 16) then insert(fifo2, concat(fifo1)) -- debug("flushing %u bytes / %u recs of FIFO1 into FIFO2[%u]", fifo1l, #fifo1, #fifo2) fifo2l, fifo1, fifo1l, k = fifo2l + fifo1l, {}, 0, F1_SIZE end if l > k+16 then -- also tolerate a size overrun of 16 bytes to avoid a split chunk, str = str:sub(1,k), str:sub(k+1) else chunk, str = str, '' end -- debug("pushing %u bytes into FIFO1[l=%u], %u bytes remaining", #chunk, fifo1l, #str) insert(fifo1, chunk) fifo1l = fifo1l + #chunk end if not s and socket then s = socket sendLine() else flushGarbage() end end local function receiveLine(s, line) -- debug( "received: %s", line) node.input(line) end local function disconnect(s) fifo1, fifo1l, fifo2, fifo2l, s = {}, 0, {}, 0, nil node.output(nil) end socket:on("receive", receiveLine) socket:on("disconnection", disconnect) socket:on("sent", sendLine) node.output(queueLine, 0) print(("Welcome to NodeMCU world (%d mem free, %s)"):format(node.heap(), wifi.sta.getip())) end local listenerSocket return { open = function(this, ssid, pwd, port) if ssid then wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION, false) wifi.sta.config { ssid = ssid, pwd = pwd, save = false } end local t = tmr.create() t:alarm(500, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() if (wifi.sta.status() == wifi.STA_GOTIP) then t:unregister() t=nil print(("Telnet server started (%d mem free, %s)"):format(node.heap(), wifi.sta.getip())) net.createServer(net.TCP, 180):listen(port or 23, telnet_listener) else uwrite(0,".") end end) end, close = function(this) if listenerSocket then listenerSocket:close() package.loaded.telnet = nil listenerSocket = nil collectgarbage() end end, }