ESP32 - ESPAsyncWebServer - server.client()？

Question

I am working on the ESP32 at the moment, and I need to integrate a new part in my already made program, the problem is that in my program I use a: AsyncWebServer, and this new part (camera ) works with: ESP32WebServer, so I try to integrate the camera is to make it work with my already programmed server, but I am stuck on this line:

#include <ESP32WebServer.h> <---- #include <ESPAsyncWebServer.h>

ESP32WebServer server (80); <----- AsyncWebServer server (80);

WiFiClient client = server.client (); <-----???

I can't find the equivalent of: server.client () when I use: AsyncWebServer.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

That's because ESPAsyncWebServer doesn't use WiFiClient objects.

WiFiClient is a poorly named interface to a raw TCP connection. ESPAsyncWebServer doesn't use WiFiClient , it uses AsyncTCP instead, which is where its asynchrony derives from (plus a lot of work in the web server itself).

It has a client() method, but that method returns an AsyncClient object. That's the closest you're going to get to getting a WiFiClient . Don't expect it to work exactly the same way or have exactly the same methods.

If you want to use the camera software with the async web server, you'll need to rewrite the camera software to work with it, or run a second web server on a different port number.