From b490d117f2bf19456451913d7ff6e48ddc174635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vyzo <vyzo@hackzen.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:23:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make heartbeat interval a parameter, turn all gossipsub
 parameters into variables

---
 gossipsub.go | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gossipsub.go b/gossipsub.go
index 5ff4386..66d1734 100644
--- a/gossipsub.go
+++ b/gossipsub.go
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	GossipSubID = protocol.ID("/meshsub/1.0.0")
+)
 
+var (
 	// overlay parameters
 	GossipSubD   = 6
 	GossipSubDlo = 4
@@ -23,6 +25,9 @@ const (
 	// gossip parameters
 	GossipSubHistoryLength = 5
 	GossipSubHistoryGossip = 3
+
+	// heartbeat interval
+	GossipSubHeartbeatInterval = 1 * time.Second
 )
 
 func NewGossipSub(ctx context.Context, h host.Host, opts ...Option) (*PubSub, error) {
@@ -306,7 +311,7 @@ func (gs *GossipSubRouter) sendRPC(p peer.ID, out *RPC) {
 }
 
 func (gs *GossipSubRouter) heartbeatTimer() {
-	ticker := time.NewTicker(1 * time.Second)
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(GossipSubHeartbeatInterval)
 	defer ticker.Stop()
 
 	for {