The core FindContent query in OvelrayServicedoes not check local database for the content before making network requests.
This cause an issue when we send commands to the OverlayService from external services.
For example, when we request a content in the light-client module, the OverlayService ignores all content in the database and relies solely on network requests.
On the other side, when we do a RecursiveFindContent JSON-RPC call, we check for the content in the database but this is implemented only on the JSON-RPC level.
To allow external modules to communicate with OverlayService in a way to get the available content via either database or network request, it seems that we have two options:
Option 1: Check for content availability in database before sending network request on OverlayService level and remove the locality check from the JSON-RPC module.
Option 2: Implement a new OverlayServicecommand that will explicitly check only for content availability in the database. External services then will have to send two commands to OverlayService - one to check for the content in the database and one to get the content from the network.
The core
FindContentquery inOvelrayServicedoes not check local database for the content before making network requests.This cause an issue when we send commands to the
OverlayServicefrom external services.For example, when we request a content in the
light-clientmodule, theOverlayServiceignores all content in the database and relies solely on network requests.On the other side, when we do a
RecursiveFindContentJSON-RPC call, we check for the content in the database but this is implemented only on the JSON-RPC level.To allow external modules to communicate with
OverlayServicein a way to get the available content via either database or network request, it seems that we have two options:Option 1: Check for content availability in database before sending network request on
OverlayServicelevel and remove the locality check from the JSON-RPC module.Option 2: Implement a new
OverlayServicecommand that will explicitly check only for content availability in the database. External services then will have to send two commands toOverlayService- one to check for the content in the database and one to get the content from the network.