How do we start implementing FTP?

[carlosmiranda]

I'm assigned to perform #213, which asks for a FTP endpoint implementation.

Design wise, I believe all we need to do is within the s3auth-relay module. Our architecture is coherent enough to separate the protocol communications in s3auth-relay to the actual resource access in s3auth-hosts. Basically, all the FTP support needs to be in s3auth-relay, is this right?

A more important question to me is what is the "minimum" that we need to implement so that we can say that we "support" FTP, if not fully? I'm not very familiar to the internals of the FTP protocol so some guidance on this matter would be of great assistance.

[yegor256]

You're right, we have to implement it inside s3auth-relay. I would start with a test.. Create a test that will use a real FTP client and will try to do a few basic FTP commands, in this order:

OPEN ftp://maven.s3auth.com
USER s3auth s3auth
CD apidocs
LIST
GET index.html
QUIT

Actually, that's all we need to support: OPEN, USER, CD, LIST, GET, QUIT

[carlosmiranda]

@yegor256 Thanks for your reply. I'm just curious as to why you consider this ticket "invalid", did I not raise a valid question?

[yegor256]

@carlosmiranda look at this article: http://www.yegor256.com/2014/11/24/principles-of-bug-tracking.html (published it a few minutes ago). Pay attention to the fifth principle.