go-waku/examples/filter2
Prem Chaitanya Prathi 47c961dcbb
feat: update lightpush API for autosharding (#774)
* feat: update lightpush API to make pubSubTopic optional as per autosharding

* Extract contentFilter and subscriptions out of filter to reuse in relay (#779)

* chore: extract contentFilter outside filter package

* chore: move subscription outside of filter so that it can be modified and reused for relay

* Feat: filter select peer for sharding (#783)

* update selectPeer to support pubsubTopic based selection
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build filter and lightpush showcase (#28) 2021-06-28 10:14:28 -04:00
Makefile waku2-filter (#23) 2021-06-10 08:59:51 -04:00
README.md Feat/autoshard filter (#723) 2023-09-20 11:26:55 +05:30
go.mod fix: nix build with RLN 2023-09-18 11:20:31 -04:00
go.sum fix: nix build with RLN 2023-09-18 11:20:31 -04:00
main.go feat: update lightpush API for autosharding (#774) 2023-09-29 10:43:25 +05:30

README.md

Using the filter2 application

Background

The filter2 application is a basic example app that demonstrates how to subscribe to and publish messages using waku2-filter

Preparation

make

Basic application usage

To start the filter2 application run the following from the project directory

./build/filter2

The app will run 2 nodes ("full" node and "light" node), with light node subscribing to full node in order to receive filtered messages.

Flow description

Light Node

  1. A light node is created with option WithWakuFilterLightNode.
  2. Starting this node sets stream handler on wakunode.Host for WakuFilterProtocolId.
  3. Light node submits a FilterSubscribeRequest through WakuFilterLightNode.Subscribe. This request is submitted to a particular peer. Filter is stored in WakuFilterLightNode.subscriptions map. That's it.
  4. Now we wait on WakuFilterLightNode.onRequest to process any further messages.
  5. On receiving a message check and notify all subscribers on relevant channel (which is part of subscription obbject).
  6. If a broadcaster is specified, WakuNode.Subscribe has a message loop extracting WakuMessages from a wakurelay.Subscription object.It denotes a pubsub topic subscription.All envelopes are then submitted to node.broadcaster.

Full Node

  1. Full node is created with option WithWakuFilterFullNode.
  2. We read incoming messages in WithWakuFilterFullNode.onRequest(). It is set as a stream handler on wakunode.Host for WakuFilterProtocolId.
  3. In WakuFilter.onRequest
  • We check the type of FilterRequest and handle accordingly.
  • If it's a FilterRequest for subscribe, add a subscriber.
  • If it is a SubscriberPing request, check if subscriptions exists or not and respond accordingly.
  • If it is an unsubscribe/unsubscribeAll request, check and remove relevant subscriptions.