This commit adds basic syncing capabilities with peers if they are both
online.
It updates the work done on MVDS, but I decided to create the code in
status-go instead, since it's very tight to the application (similarly
the code that was the inspiration for mvds, bramble, is all tight
together at the database level).
I reused parts of the protobufs.
The flow is:
1) An OFFER message is sent periodically with a bunch of message-ids and
group-ids.
2) Anyone can REQUEST some of those messages if not present in their
database.
3) The peer will then send over those messages.
It's disabled by default, but I am planning to add a way to set up the
flags.
This commit expands the confirmation mechanism to allow private group
chat messages to be confirmed:
Changes:
- Added a separate table for message confirmations as group chat
messages have same messageID but multiple datasyncID
- Removed DataSyncID from raw message (I haven't removed the column name
as it can't be done in sqlite without copying over the table)
if an error is returned on the Send function, datasync will keep
retrying a message at each epoch. If the message cannot be sent (for
example is too large), then no messages will be sent until logout.
This commit fixes a bug on the mvds library where the nextEpoch would be
incorrectly summed to the retry time, resulting in messages not being
retried, or retried much less frequently the longer the app was running.
It also updates the retry timing to backoff exponentially at multiple of
30 seconds.
When sending messages in quick succession, it might be that multiple
messages are batched together in datasync, resulting in a single large
payload.
This commit changes the behavior so that we can pass a max-message-size
and we split the message in batches before sending.
A more elegant way would be to split at the transport layer (i.e
waku/whisper), but that would be incompatible with older client.
We can still do that eventually to support larger messages.
kaichaosun
Andrea Maria Piana
Patryk Osmaczko
Volodymyr Kozieiev
Adam Babik
Pedro Pombeiro