Multiple Concurrent Connections

[alolis]

Hello,

I would like if this feature is supported by node-ftp. I went through documentation but i couldn't find anything. If not, is it going to?

Thank you for your time

[mscdex]

Can you explain what you mean by "multiple concurrent connections?"

You can create as many instances of the FTP client that you need, provided your FTP server allows multiple connections (from the same user/IP/etc).

[alolis]

I am referring to the ability to make multiple calls to get/put in order to download/upload multiple files in parallel. Do i achieve this by what you proposed? Multiple FTP client instances? I would expect to do it with one instance and call connection.get() or connection.put() multiple times but that will do as well.

[mscdex]

The way the FTP protocol is designed, you cannot perform multiple transfers on a single connection at the same time. If you need to do it in parallel, you might look into using generic-pool with this module.

[alolis]

Thanks for your time mscdex!

[kenichi-shibata]

@mscdex I'm trying to do multiple 'put' operation in one connection can you show me an example how to this using generic-pool?

[mscdex]

@alolis You can't do multiple operations in parallel on a single connection. If you're using something like generic-pool, you're using multiple connections. I do not have any specific examples for using with generic-pool but it should be fairly straight forward if you follow their documentation.

[alolis]

@mscdex , wrong user :p You probably meant @fr-kshibata

[mscdex]

Ah yes, sorry.