protobee

Hyperbee over Protomux. Primary server that allows many writable clients

npm i protobee

Warning: this is experimental, and it might contain edge case bugs.

Usage

const RAM = require('random-access-memory')
const c = require('compact-encoding')
const Hypercore = require('hypercore')
const Hyperbee = require('hyperbee')
const Protobee = require('protobee')

// Server side
const core = new Hypercore(RAM)
const bee = new Hyperbee(core)

const server = new Protobee.Server(bee)
await server.ready()

// Client side
const db = new Protobee(server.key, server.clientSeed, { keyEncoding: c.any, valueEncoding: c.any })
await db.ready()

console.log(db.version) // => 1
await db.put('/a', '1')
console.log(db.version) // => 2

// Another client
const db2 = new Protobee(server.key, server.clientSeed)
await db2.ready()

console.log(db2.version) // => 2
await db2.get('/a') // => { seq, key, value }

API

const server = new Protobee.Server(bee, [options])

Creates a DHT server that handles RPC requests supporting the Hyperbee API.

bee must be a Hyperbee instance.

Available options:

{
  primaryKey, // Secret primary key used to derive server and client key pairs
  dht, // DHT instance
  bootstrap // Array of bootstrap nodes (only if you didn't pass a DHT instance)
}

await server.ready()

Wait for the server to be listening on the Hypercore key pair of the Hyperbee.

server.key

Public key of the server. Client can use it to connect to the server.

server.clientSeed

Default secret client seed. Client can use it for authentication.

const db = new Protobee(serverKey, seed, [options])

Creates a RPC client to connects to the server.

serverKey must be server.key.

seed must be server.clientSeed, it's used to generate the client key pair.

Available options:

{
  keyEncoding, // It doesn't support custom codecs, only a string from codecs or a compact-encoding method
  valueEncoding,
  dht, // DHT instance
  bootstrap // Array of bootstrap nodes (only if you didn't pass a DHT instance)
}

The rest of the API

Practically the same API as Hyperbee:

https://github.com/holepunchto/hyperbee

Warning

Differences with Hyperbee:

• The way you create the Protobee instance is different but this is expected.
• Errors are very different at the moment.
• Possible bugs around the version property due core truncates (needs more debugging and testing).
• In bee.put method the cas option is a bool, and if you pass a function it will throw.
• In bee.del method the cas option is not supported, and it will throw if you use it.

Notes:

• A bad client can create unlimited snapshots or sending bad requests (needs protection settings).

Current unsupported methods:

• sub (in favor of using sub-encoder lib, but it might end up being supported)
• watch
• getAndWatch

License

MIT