TypeError: sbot.links is not a function

[nichoth]

This is when using the module ssb-viewer -- https://github.com/planetary-social/planetary-pub/blob/main/index.js#L48

The viewer seems to require sbot.links, but when I add it, it gives an error:

TypeError: ssb._flumeUse is not a function

This is when I'm including the compat module

    .use(require('ssb-db2/compat')) // include all compatibility plugins

[arj03]

ssb-db2 doesn't use flume. ssb-viewer needs to be fixed to use db2 queries instead.

[nichoth]

Now to figure out what is the equivalent query to sbot.links

[staltz]

How does the sbot.links query look like exactly?

[nichoth]

It looks like it is line 344 here -- https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-viewer/blob/master/index.js#L344

      pull(
        sbot.links({dest: id, values: true, rel: 'root' }),
        pull.unique('key'),
        pull.collect(function (err, links) {
          if (err) return respond(res, 500, err.stack || err)
          if(includeRoot)
            links.unshift(root)
          render(links)
        })
      )

[staltz]

Ah, in that case you could use an approach such as the one I used in ssb-threads (see source code)

[nichoth]

Thanks @staltz ! So it looks like ssb-threads supersedes that call to sbot.links in the old version of ssb, and I should be installing & using ssb-threads instead.

[staltz]

Oh yeah, of course, just using ssb-threads directly is a good alternative, that didn't occur to me.