@anythread/gsoc

GSOC

This library facilitates to use Graffiti Several Owner Chunks (GSOC) on Ethereum Swarm.

Leveraging its features, any data can be referenced to other related data without maintaing any external registry or running service.

** WARNING! This project is in the experimental phase! **

It is intended to be an upgraded version of the predecessor Graffiti Feed based zerodash library. Missing feature is the reading part though the communication is possible by running storer node and subscribe to incoming infromation signals.

Install

** NPM release will be available later, compile the project instead! **

npm install @anythread/gsoc --save

Usage

The library provides InformationSignal class that reads/writes GSOC according to the consensus and other configuration parameters.

The consensus consists of an arbitrary id and an assert function that validates the handled records in the GSOC address space.

const id = 'SampleDapp:v1'

export interface SampleDappRecord {
  /** text of the message */
  text: string
  /** creation time of the comment */
  timestamp: number
}

function assertRecord(value: unknown): asserts value is SampleDappRecord {
  if (
    value !== null &&
    typeof value === 'object' &&
    Object.keys(value).includes('text') &&
    Object.keys(value).includes('timestamp')
  ) {
    return
  }
  
  throw new Error('The given value is not a valid personal storage record')
}

With that, the rules have been created for kademlia information signaling on any data.

Information Signal

Information Signal class facilitates GSOC data reading based on the passed consensus rules.

import { InformationSignal } from '@anythread/gsoc'

beeUrl = 'http://localhost:1633' // Bee API URL to connect p2p storage network
postage = '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000' // for write operations, the Postage Batch ID (64 length hex) or a Postage Stamp (226 length hex) must be set 
resourceId = 'demo' // any string/content hash that represents the resource to which the Personal Storage record will be associated.

// initialize object that will read and write the GSOC according to the passed consensus/configuration
informationSignal = new InformationSignal(beeUrl, {
  postage,
  consensus: {
    id,
    assertRecord,
  },
})

// it is also possible to mine the resourceId to the desired Bee node to ensure they will get the message as soon as possible on the forwarding Kademlia network
targetBeeOverlayAddress = 'b0baf37700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
{ resourceId } = informationSignal.mine(targetBeeOverlayAddress, 16)

// subscribe to incoming topics on the receiver node
// this will immediately invoge `onMessage` and `onError` function if the message arrives to the target neighborhood of the Kademlia network.
cancelSub = informationSignal.subscribe({onMessage: msg => console.log('my-life-event', msg), onError: console.log}, resourceId)

// write GSOC record that satisfies the message format with the `write` method.
uploadedSoc = await informationSignal.write({ text: 'Hello there!', timestamp: 1721989685349 }, resourceId)

Compilation

In order to compile code run

npm run compile

You can find the resulted code under the dist folder.

For types compilation, run

npm run compile:types

Testing

The testing needs running Bee client node for integration testing. You should set BEE_POSTAGE and BEE_POSTAGE_2 environment variable with valid Postage batch IDs.

In order to test on different node than http://localhost:1633 and http://localhost:11633, set BEE_API_URL and BEE_PEER_API_URL environment variable, respectively.

To run test execute

npm run test