document ipns pubsub #4903
document ipns pubsub #4903
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License: MIT Signed-off-by: vyzo <vyzo@hackzen.org>
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@magik6k yes, this is true; i'll add a note. |
License: MIT Signed-off-by: vyzo <vyzo@hackzen.org>
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| Utilizes pubsub for publishing ipns records in real time. |
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Can we say slightly more about how it works/what it does? e.g:
When you publish an IPNS record, a message about the record will also be published via pubsub (note: does it get repeatedly sent [and roughly what frequency] or just once at publish time?). When you resolve an IPNS address, your daemon will subscribe to the pubsub topic for that name so it is immediately informed of changes.
I’m not even totally sure my understanding there is correct, so please fix if it’s not!
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Really, the important part is: what should the user expect and why would they want to try this feature out?
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ok fine, I'll add another sentence paragraph :)
docs/experimental-features.md
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Was it in this version? I thought this only made it into 0.4.14.
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uhm ok, not sure either.
License: MIT Signed-off-by: vyzo <vyzo@hackzen.org>
docs/experimental-features.md
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| When it is enabled: | ||
| - IPNS publishers push records to a name-specific pubsub topic, | ||
| in addition to publishing to the DHT. | ||
| - IPNS resolvers subscribe to the name-specific topic and receive newly |
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At the moment, it's a bit unclear what this actually means, I'd go with something like:
IPNS resolvers subscribe to name-specific topics on first resolutions to speedup future resolutions of the same name.
License: MIT Signed-off-by: vyzo <vyzo@hackzen.org>
docs/experimental-features.md
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| published records through pubsub in real time. Note that the initial resolution | ||
| still goes through the DHT, as there is no message history in pubsub. | ||
| - IPNS resolvers subscribe to the name-specific topic on first | ||
| resoltion and receive subsequently published records through pubsub |
Closes #4902