Seems loading remote db is not working

[ajayrao80]

const IPFS = require('ipfs')
const OrbitDB = require('orbit-db')

const ipfsOptions = {
    start: true,
    EXPERIMENTAL: {
      pubsub: true,
    },
    config: {
      Addresses: {
        Swarm: [
          '/dns4/ws-star.discovery.libp2p.io/tcp/443/wss/p2p-websocket-star'
        ]
      },
    }
  }

  const ipfs = new IPFS(ipfsOptions)

  ipfs.on('error', (e) => console.error(e))

  ipfs.on('ready', async () => {
    const orbitdb = new OrbitDB(ipfs)

    const db = await orbitdb.open('ajdb', {
        create: true, 
        overwrite: true,
        localOnly: false,
        type: 'keyvalue',
        write: ['*'],
      })

    await db.load()

    await db.set('name', 'hello')

    const value = db.get('name')
    console.log(value)
 })

I'm testing this on two computers. Above code is in one computer.

Below code is in another. One computer creates the db and adds an entry to it another one tries to retrieve it.

const IPFS = require('ipfs')
  const OrbitDB = require('orbit-db')

  const ipfsOptions = {
    start: true,
    EXPERIMENTAL: {
      pubsub: true,
    },
    config: {
      Addresses: {
        Swarm: [
          '/dns4/ws-star.discovery.libp2p.io/tcp/443/wss/p2p-websocket-star',
        ]
      },
    }
  }

  const ipfs = new IPFS(ipfsOptions)

  ipfs.on('error', (e) => console.error(e))

  ipfs.on('ready', async () => {
    const orbitdb = new OrbitDB(ipfs)

    const db = await orbitdb.open('/orbitdb/QmcYbhRpK8pySXwpH5iTPTNna5aWBf2dE75UoLvC7ENFM5/ajdb', { sync: true })
    await db.load()

    const value = db.get('name')
    console.log(value)
  })

But second computer which is retrieving the entries (at least trying to) returns undefined. Not sure why i can't load a remote database. I've also tried querying the database after the replication event but replication event is not triggering at all.

[cristiano-belloni]

You should listen for the replicated event and try to query the database then. Please note that replicated is different from the replicate event, which instead triggers before replicating.

[aphelionz]

Moving this to the Field Manual so we can go into more detail