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Sending UDP Data (standard interface)
Part of the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP Networking Tutorial

The FreeRTOS_sendto() TCP/IP stack API function is used to send data to a UDP socket. Data can only be sent after the socket has been created, configured, and optionally bound to a local port number.

As detailed on the FreeRTOS_sendto() API reference page, FreeRTOS_sendto() can be used with standard calling semantics, or zero copy calling semantics. This page demonstrates the standard calling semantics.

The source code below shows a RTOS task that creates a UDP socket before entering a loop that sends a string to the socket (using the standard calling semantics) every 1 second (1000ms). The comments in the source code example provide more information.


static void vUDPSendUsingStandardInterface( void *pvParameters )
{
Socket_t xSocket;
struct freertos_sockaddr xDestinationAddress;
uint8_t cString[ 50 ];
uint32_t ulCount = 0UL;
const TickType_t x1000ms = 1000UL / portTICK_PERIOD_MS;

/* Send strings to port 10000 on IP address 192.168.0.50. */
xDestinationAddress.sin_addr = FreeRTOS_inet_addr( "192.168.0.50" );
xDestinationAddress.sin_port = FreeRTOS_htons( 10000 );

/* Create the socket. */
xSocket = FreeRTOS_socket( FREERTOS_AF_INET4, /* Used for IPv4 UDP socket. */

/* FREERTOS_AF_INET6 can be used for IPv6 UDP socket. */

FREERTOS_SOCK_DGRAM, /*FREERTOS_SOCK_DGRAM for UDP.*/
FREERTOS_IPPROTO_UDP );

/* Check the socket was created. */
configASSERT( xSocket != FREERTOS_INVALID_SOCKET );

/* NOTE: FreeRTOS_bind() is not called. This will only work if
ipconfigALLOW_SOCKET_SEND_WITHOUT_BIND is set to 1 in FreeRTOSIPConfig.h. */


for( ;; )
{
/* Create the string that is sent. */
sprintf( cString,
"Standard send message number %lurn",
ulCount );

/* Send the string to the UDP socket. ulFlags is set to 0, so the standard
semantics are used. That means the data from cString[] is copied
into a network buffer inside FreeRTOS_sendto(), and cString[] can be
reused as soon as FreeRTOS_sendto() has returned. */

FreeRTOS_sendto( xSocket,
cString,
strlen( cString ),
0,
&xDestinationAddress,
sizeof( xDestinationAddress ) );

ulCount++;

/* Wait until it is time to send again. */
vTaskDelay( x1000ms );
}
}

Example using FreeRTOS_sendto() with the standard (as opposed to zero copy) calling semantics



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