Accounts realtime update

[elmurci]

Right now accounts configuration is passed to the connector on start up. For large systems and with constant real time additions/changes to accounts this is not scalable.

Shouldn't the Connector have the Plugin offer a getAccount method to check in realtime whether the account exists/has balance/is blocked...?

[sentientwaffle]

https://github.com/interledgerjs/ilp-connector/pull/476 is a step in that direction (albeit with a different approach than you describe).

[elmurci]

Thanks @sentientwaffle, it seems to me that having the connector to keep track of accounts is not scalable.

[kincaidoneil]

For reference, our connector configuration adds, removes and hot-swaps accounts without restarting, using the current ilp-connector.

The admin API HTTP endpoints (or calling getPlugin and then invoking getAdminInfo) enables querying the balance and whether the peer is blocked for xrp-asym-server (I'm not sure about the other XRP plugins, but that's not currently supported by Lightning or Eth).

As DJ mentioned, #476 should make this easier and standardized as plugins are updated to support it.

[elmurci]

Thanks @kincaidoneil, have you guys tested performance with thousands or hundreds of thousands of accounts?

[sentientwaffle]

I think you may be misunderstanding what an "account" is in the connector. Usually a connector will have only need one account per plugin type. Plugins based on ilp-plugin-mini-accounts allow many users to access a connector without the connector ever reconfiguring.

[elmurci]

@sentientwaffle So if I am a ILSP, wouldn't I have as many accounts as users?

[sentientwaffle]

Correct

[elmurci]

So I think what you mean is as a Connector I will have 1 account per plugin type/ledger, but as a many accounts for my users as I need outside the connector.

Correct?

[sentientwaffle]

Yes

[elmurci]

👍Thanks