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hyperledger / iroha-javascript

JavaScript library for Iroha, a Distributed Ledger Technology (blockchain) platform.
https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/iroha
Apache License 2.0
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Make client transport-agnostic #98

Closed 0x009922 closed 1 year ago

0x009922 commented 2 years ago

Using some concrete HTTP and WebSocket client limits some usage possibilities.

For HTTP client uses native Fetch API in browser and node-fetch in node. It is quite lightweight, but it has a set of drawbacks:

And this list can go on and on. It is not a nice decision to handle each possible API extension by extending the client (i.e. iroha client) itself. It would be much nicer if client provides a toolchain to build requests and to handle responses for them.

For WebSocket client currently uses the same approach - native WebSocket in browser, and ws in node. It has the same set of drawbacks. And it can be solved in the same way.

0x009922 commented 1 year ago

I think that Torii from @iroha2/client is a simple implementation of Iroha 2 HTTP & WS spec. If library users need some specific logic over these protocols, they should implement it on their own. It is not an issue since Torii logic is quite simple.