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Running the trading demoΒΆ

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The repository contains a program that implements a demo of two nodes running the two-party trading protocol, which you +can learn about in Protocol state machines.

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The node has only currently been tested on MacOS X. If you have success on other platforms, please let us know.

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To run the demo, firstly edit your /etc/hosts file or Windows equivalent to add two aliases for localhost: alpha and +beta. This is necessary for now because parts of the code use the DNS hostname to identify nodes and thus defining two +nodes both called localhost won’t work. We might fix this in future to include the port number everywhere, so making +this easier.

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You should now be able to run ping alpha and ping beta and not see errors.

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Now, open two terminals, and in the first run::

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./gradlew runDemoBuyer
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It will create a directory named “alpha” and ask you to edit the configuration file inside. Open up alpha/config +in your favourite text editor and give the node a legal identity of “Alpha Corp, Inc” or whatever else you feel like. +The actual text string is not important. Now run the gradle command again, and it should start up and wait for +a seller to connect.

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In the second terminal, run:

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./gradlew runDemoSeller
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and repeat the process, this time calling the node ... something else.

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You should see some log lines scroll past, and within a few seconds the messages “Purchase complete - we are a +happy customer!” and “Sale completed - we have a happy customer!” should be printed.

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If it doesn’t work, jump on the mailing list and let us know.

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