metaversejs-p2p

JavaScript library for the Metaverse Blockchain P2P network

Install

Install base package

npm install metaversejs-p2p

Install a transport plugin

npm install metaversejs-transport-tcpip

Usage

Please see the examples directory for more complete examples.

Pool

Create a pool

const { Pool } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const { P2PTransporterTCPIP } = require('metaversejs-transport-tcpip')
 
const pool = new Pool({}, new P2PTransporterTCPIP()).connect()

Receive Messages

To access the incomming messages you can subscribe to $ingress

pool.$ingress.subscribe(message => {
    console.log('<<-- received from', message.peer.host, message.command, message.payload)
})

Get Pool Actions

Pool actions are available on the $egress subject

pool.$egress.subscribe(message=>{
    console.log('-->>', message.command)
})

Number Of Connected Peers

const q = pool.numberConnected()

Peer

Connect to peer

It will automatically send the version message and respond with verack if version messages are received.

const { Peer } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const { P2PTransportTCPIP } = require('metaversejs-transport-tcpip')
 
const transport = new P2PTransportTCPIP({host: '198.199.84.199', port: 5251})
const peer = new Peer({
    transport,
    host: '198.199.84.199',
    port: 5251,
    relay: true,
}).connect()

Peer Status

The current status is avalable as a variable.

const status = peer.currentStatus

You can also subscibe to status changes on $status

peer.$status.subscribe(status=>console.log('peer status:', status))

Send Messages

The sendMessage function can send messages. The following example will send a Ping.

const { PingMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
 
peer.sendMessage(new PingMessage())

You can access all outgoing messages by subscribing to $egress

peer.$egress.subscribe(message => {
    console.log('-->> egress to',peer.host, message.command, message.payload)
})

Receive

The received messages are available on the $ingress subject

peer.$ingress.subscribe(message => {
    console.log('<<-- ingress from', peer.host, message.command, message.payload)
})

Messages

Messages are transferred as binary data.

length	content
4 byte	NETWORK_MAGIC	mainnet value: 4d56534d
12 byte	COMMAND	ascii encoded command
4 byte	PAYLOAD LENGTH	Int32LE encoded
4 byte	PAYLOAD CHECKSUM	first 4 bytes of sha256sha256(payload)
rest	PAYLOAD

To make message handling easier there are classes for the supported messages.

Ping

To keep a connection open you should send ping messages to the other peer.

const { PingMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new PingMessage({
  nonce?: Buffer // if not defined a random nonce will be generated
})

Pong

Send pong messages as a response of another peer's ping message.

const { PongMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new PongMessage({
  nonce: Buffer // must be the nonce of the previous ping received from the peer
})

Verack

After receiving a version message from another peer you need to answer with a verack message.

const { VerackMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new VerackMessage()

Version

The version message is the first message of a peer connecting to another peer. The version message contains information about both peers and the own services and state.

const { VersionkMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new VersionMessage({
  relay: true, // receive unconfirmed transactions
  version: 70012, // version
  services: 1, // services your node provides
  startHeight: 3514519, // your current bestblockheight
  subversion: "/metaverse:0.9.0/", // subversion name
  nonce?: Buffer.from('fa4eba0d6e8b659e', 'hex'), // optional - default: random buffer
  timestamp: new Date("2020-03-29T19:11:25.000Z"), // optional - default: current timestamp
  addrMe: {
    ip: { // works without providing real ip but nodes should try to provide real ip
      v4: '95.116.169.107', // your ipv4 address
      v6: '0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:5f74:a96b' // your ipv6 address
    },
    port: 58616, // port number
    services: 1 // provided services
  },
  addrYou: { // similar to addMe
    ip: {
      v4: '198.199.84.199',
      v6: '0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:c6c7:54c7'
    },
    port: 5251,
    services: 0
  },
})

Inventory

Peers exchange information about each others transactions and blocks via inventory messages. The messages only contain the hashes of the transactions and blocks.

const { InventoryMessage, InventoryTx, InventoryBlock, } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
 
// can contain transactions
const message = new InventoryMessage({
  inventory: [
    new InventoryTx('3550047ed23a5e68c5fca0f6cb1ddd0df69998c73e0318dc9c57adb376784849'),
    new InventoryTx('bfee531c274585ca3e222bc39e0fbad94b8e1a9b2cda09892d5e27d02caa3db9'),
  ]
})
 
// or blocks
const message = new InventoryMessage({
  inventory: [
    new InventoryBlock('a2e5e162a0b6d0faeb71ced40836b6fdf3715e4950d7ac9dd02bd80daea33de7'),
    new InventoryBlock('8f3cc621407f2b749bb807d855db6c0787a543d6956148684c0804279c35e8ce'),
  ]
})

GetAddr

Ask the other peer for a list of other connected peers.

const { GetAddrMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new GetAddrMessage()

MemPool

Ask the other peer to send the inventory of the mempool.

const { MemPoolMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new MemPoolMessage()

Addr

Answer to the GetAddr message. It contains a list of addresses of the connected peers.

const { AddrMessage } = require('metaversejs-p2p')
const message = new AddrMessage({
  addresses: [
    {
      timestamp: new Date(),
      services: 1, // list of services that peer provides
      ip: {
        v6?: '0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:1b25:4427',
        v4?: '27.37.68.39',
      },
      port: 5251
    },
    // ... can and in most cases will contain more addresses
  ]
})

License

MIT License

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