Possibility of Direct messaging / broadcast?

bmuller / kademlia

A DHT in Python using asyncio

http://kademlia.readthedocs.org

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Possibility of Direct messaging / broadcast? #68

Closed lsteffenel closed 5 years ago

lsteffenel commented 5 years ago

Hello! I have a question about using kademlia beyond a simple DHT storage. Indeed, I need both DHT and a messaging overlay, but I'm having trouble finding how to implement messaging over this library. I'm almost sure that there is a way using the RPC over UDP module, but I'm too dumb (ok, I came from the Java world and I previously used the TomP2P library).

Can you give me some hints on how to send messages between nodes?

Thank you for your help!

bmuller commented 5 years ago

Hey @lsteffenel - you could create your own version of kademlia.protocol.KademliaProtocol (make a new class that extends it, and add your own additional RPC functions). Then just set that class as the protocol used for the network (here). Then, after starting the network connection for a node, you can call server.protocol.your_rpc_function(whatever).

amirouche commented 5 years ago

@lsteffenel for what it is worth, I have made a fork of this project where I re-implemented storage and added a few more primitives, look at this repository. You particular requirements to do messaging can be implemented in a similar way to get_at