Rod

Rust Object Database.

The decentralized social networking application Iris-messenger syncs over Rod peers by default.

Use

Install Rust first.

Install & run

cargo install rod rod start

Library

rust use rod::{Node, Config, Value}; let mut db = Node::new_with_config(Config { outgoing_websocket_peers: vec!["wss://some-server-to-sync.with/ws".to_string()], ..Config::default() }); let mut sub = db.get("greeting").on(); db.get("greeting").put("Hello World!".into()); if let Value::Text(str) = sub.recv().await.unwrap() { assert_eq!(&str, "Hello World!"); }

Status

15/5/2022:

• [x] Basic
• [x] CLI for running the server
• [x] Incoming websockets
• [x] Outgoing websockets (env PEERS=wss://some-server-url.herokuapp.com/ws)
• [x] Multicast (currently size limited to 65KB — large photos in messages will not sync over it)
• [x] In-memory storage
• [x] TLS support (env CERTPATH and KEYPATH)
• [x] Advanced deduplication of network messages
• [x] Publish & subscribe (network messages only relayed to relevant peers)
• [x] Disk storage (sled.rs)
• [x] Hash verification for content-addressed data (db.get('#').get(data_hash).put(data))
• [x] Signature verification of user data (db.get('~' + pubkey).get('profile') ...)
• [ ] Encryption & decryption (usually not needed on the server, but used on the client side in js, like iris private messaging)

Issues

• Multicast doesn't relay large messages like Iris posts with photos

Develop

cargo install cargo-watch RUST_LOG=debug cargo watch -x 'run -- start'

cargo test

Watch for code changes and re-run tests that contain the word "stats": RUST_LOG=debug cargo watch -x 'test stats'

cargo bench

Run on Heroku

heroku create --buildpack emk/rust git push heroku master

or: