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# Waku APIs
## Nim API
The Nim Waku API consist of five methods. Some of them have different arity
depending on what privacy/bandwidth trade-off the consumer wants to make. These
five method are:
1. **Init** - create and start a node.
2. **Subscribe** - to a topic or a specific content filter.
3. **Unsubscribe** - to a topic or a specific content filter.
4. **Publish** - to a topic, or a topic and a specific content filter.
5. **Query** - for historical messages.
```Nim
proc init*(T: type WakuNode, conf: WakuNodeConf): Future[T]
## Creates and starts a Waku node.
##
## Status: Implemented.
method subscribe*(w: WakuNode, topic: Topic, handler: TopicHandler)
## Subscribes to a PubSub topic. Triggers handler when receiving messages on
## this topic. TopicHandler is a method that takes a topic and some data.
##
## NOTE The data field SHOULD be decoded as a WakuMessage.
## Status: Implemented.
method subscribe*(w: WakuNode, filter: FilterRequest, handler: ContentFilterHandler)
## Registers for messages that match a specific filter. Triggers the handler whenever a message is received.
## FilterHandler is a method that takes a MessagePush.
##
## Status: Implemented.
method unsubscribe*(w: WakuNode, topic: Topic)
## Unsubscribe from a topic.
##
## Status: Not yet implemented.
## TODO Implement.
method unsubscribe*(w: WakuNode, contentFilter: ContentFilter)
## Unsubscribe from a content filter.
##
## Status: Not yet implemented.
## TODO Implement.
method publish*(w: WakuNode, topic: Topic, message: WakuMessage)
## Publish a `WakuMessage` to a PubSub topic. `WakuMessage` should contain a
## `contentTopic` field for light node functionality. This field may be also
## be omitted.
##
## Status: Implemented.
method query*(w: WakuNode, query: HistoryQuery, handler: QueryHandlerFunc) {.async, gcsafe.} =
## Queries known nodes for historical messages. Triggers the handler whenever a response is received.
## QueryHandlerFunc is a method that takes a HistoryResponse.
##
## Status: Implemented.
```
## JSON RPC
### TODO To specify