[BOUNTY - $200] Manual networking with configuration files

[AlexCheema]

• Add the ability to specify a configuration file (in JSON or YAML or TOML format)
• When specified, this should use a new ManualDiscovery discovery module
• See existing UDPDiscovery and TailscaleDiscovery discovery modules for a reference implementation. This should be even simpler than these.
• We should still check for unhealthy peers and make it clear in the logs if one of the peers you have in your configuration file is unhealthy

[lipere123]

Hello. Did the YAML that I did send you via discord is good for you ? Thanks in advance. Best Regards. Benjamin.

[AlexCheema]

Hello. Did the YAML that I did send you via discord is good for you ? Thanks in advance. Best Regards. Benjamin.

It looks a bit overcomplicated. Basically you need to implement

  @abstractmethod
  async def discover_peers(self, wait_for_peers: int = 0) -> List[PeerHandle]:
    pass

The only PeerHandle we support right now is GRPCPeerHandle so you just need to be able to create a GRPCPeerHandle for each peer. Here's the constructor:

class GRPCPeerHandle(PeerHandle):
  def __init__(self, _id: str, address: str, device_capabilities: DeviceCapabilities):
    self._id = _id
    self.address = address
    self._device_capabilities = device_capabilities
    self.channel = None
    self.stub = None

So you need an id, address and device_capabilities for each peer in the configuration file.

[lipere123]

Okay, I will look into that.