Check the marketplace availability

[2-towns]

The Codex node can be run without the marketplace enabled.

In this case, we should provide an indicator to inform the user that in order to create storage requests or availabilities, they need to enable the marketplace on the client node first.

• [ ] Create an endpoint in the nim
• [ ] Call this endpoint on page load and display a message and/or an indicator indicating the availability of the marketplace.

CC @veaceslavdoina

[veaceslavdoina]

Request

curl http://localhost:8080/api/codex/v1/storage/purchases

Marketplace enabled

Code: 200
Body: []

Marketplace disabled

Code: 503
Body: Persistence is not enabled

[2-towns]

Blocked by https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-codex/pull/942

[2-towns]

@veaceslavdoina on https://discord.com/channels/895609329053474826/1289188030795485327/1289196089005834294, you mentioned an indicator for Storage Provider. Can you explain if there is a relation between the storage provider and the marketplace and how to detect a connection with it ? Fetching the port 8091 ?

[2-towns]

@veaceslavdoina on https://discord.com/channels/895609329053474826/1289188030795485327/1289196089005834294, you mentioned an indicator for Storage Provider. Can you explain if there is a relation between the storage provider and the marketplace and how to detect a connection with it ? Fetching the port 8091 ?

@veaceslavdoina ?

[veaceslavdoina]

My initial question was to show in which mode we are running Codex. Per our documentation we can run Codex in three modes

• Codex node
• Codex node with marketplace support + persistence + --eth-provider + --eth-private-key + --marketplace-address
• Codex storage node + prover + --circuit-dir

In all the cases, we have same API, Transport and Discovery ports. But I'm not sure if we can detect via API if prover is enabled in the configuration.

Let's ask around :)