gostream

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go-libp2p-gostream

Go "net" wrappers for libp2p

Package gostream allows to replace the standard net stack in Go with LibP2P streams.

Given a libp2p.Host, gostream provides Dial() and Listen() methods which return implementations of net.Conn and net.Listener.

Instead of the regular "host:port" addressing, gostream uses a Peer ID, and rather than a raw TCP connection, gostream will use libp2p's net.Stream. This means your connections will take advantage of libp2p's multi-routes, NAT traversal, and stream multiplexing.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Contribute
• License

Install

This package is a library that uses Go modules for depedency management.

Usage

Documentation can be read at Godoc. The important bits follow.

A simple communication between peers -one acting as server and the other as client- would work like:

go func() {
	listener, _ := Listen(srvHost, tag)
	defer listener.Close()
	servConn, _ := listener.Accept()
	defer servConn.Close()
	reader := bufio.NewReader(servConn)
	msg, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
	fmt.Println(msg)
	servConn.Write([]byte("answer!\n"))
}()
clientConn, _ := Dial(context.Background(), clientHost, srvHost.ID(), tag)
clientConn.Write([]byte("question?\n"))
resp, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(clientConn)
fmt.Println(resp)

Note error handling above is ommited.

Contribute

PRs accepted.

License

MIT © Protocol Labs, Inc.

Documentation

Overview

Package gostream allows to replace the standard net stack in Go with [LibP2P](https://github.com/libp2p/libp2p) streams.

Given a libp2p.Host, gostream provides Dial() and Listen() methods which return implementations of net.Conn and net.Listener.

Instead of the regular "host:port" addressing, `gostream` uses a Peer ID, and rather than a raw TCP connection, gostream will use libp2p's net.Stream. This means your connections will take advantage of LibP2P's multi-routes, NAT transversal and stream multiplexing.

Note that LibP2P hosts cannot dial to themselves, so there is no possibility of using the same Host as server and as client.

Index

• Variables
• func Dial(ctx context.Context, h host.Host, pid peer.ID, tag protocol.ID) (net.Conn, error)
• func Listen(h host.Host, tag protocol.ID) (net.Listener, error)

Variables

var Network = "libp2p"

Network is the "net.Addr.Network()" name returned by addresses used by gostream connections. In turn, the "net.Addr.String()" will be a peer ID.

Functions

func Dial

func Dial(ctx context.Context, h host.Host, pid peer.ID, tag protocol.ID) (net.Conn, error)

Dial opens a stream to the destination address (which should parseable to a peer ID) using the given host and returns it as a standard net.Conn.

func Listen

func Listen(h host.Host, tag protocol.ID) (net.Listener, error)

Listen provides a standard net.Listener ready to accept "connections". Under the hood, these connections are libp2p streams tagged with the given protocol.ID.