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* use new decentralized directories everywhere instead of old centralized directories * provide UI to them through the web server * provide UI to them through the CLI * update unit tests to simulate decentralized mutable directories in order to test other components that rely on them * remove the notion of a "vdrive server" and a client thereof * remove the notion of a "public vdrive", which was a directory that was centrally published/subscribed automatically by the tahoe node (you can accomplish this manually by making a directory and posting the URL to it on your web site, for example) * add a notion of "wait_for_numpeers" when you need to publish data to peers, which is how many peers should be attached before you start. The default is 1. * add __repr__ for filesystem nodes (note: these reprs contain a few bits of the secret key!) * fix a few bugs where we used to equate "mutable" with "not read-only". Nowadays all directories are mutable, but some might be read-only (to you). * fix a few bugs where code wasn't aware of the new general-purpose metadata dict the comes with each filesystem edge * sundry fixes to unit tests to adjust to the new directories, e.g. don't assume that every share on disk belongs to a chk file.
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CODE OVERVIEW
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A brief map to where the code lives in this distribution:
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src/allmydata: the code for this project. When installed, this provides the
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'allmydata' package. This includes a few pieces copied from
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the PyCrypto package, in allmydata/Crypto/* .
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Within src/allmydata/ :
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interfaces.py: declaration of zope.interface-style Interfaces for most
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components, also defines Foolscap RemoteInterfaces for
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all remotely-accessible components
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node.py: the base Node, which handles connection establishment and
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application startup
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client.py, introducer.py:
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these are two specialized subclasses of Node, for users and the central
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introducer, respectively. Each works by assembling a collection of services
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underneath a top-level Node instance.
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introducer.py: node introduction handlers, client and server
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storageserver.py: provides storage services to other nodes
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codec.py: low-level erasure coding, wraps the zfec library
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encode.py: handles turning data into shares and blocks, computes hash trees
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upload.py: upload server selection, reading data from upload sources
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download.py: download server selection, share retrieval, decoding
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dirnode2.py: implements the distributed directory nodes.
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webish.py, web/*.xhtml: provides the web frontend, using a Nevow server
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uri.py: URI packing/parsing routines
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hashtree.py: Merkle hash tree classes
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debugshell.py, manhole.py: SSH-connected python shell, for debug purposes
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util/*.py: misc utility classes
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test/*.py: unit tests
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Both the client and the central introducer node runs as a tree of
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(twisted.application.service) Service instances. The Foolscap "Tub" is one of
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these. Client nodes have an Uploader service and a Downloader service that
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turn data into URIs and back again.
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The Uploader is given an "upload source" (which could be an open filehandle,
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a filename on local disk, or even a string), and returns a Deferred that
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fires with the URI once the upload is complete. The Downloader is given a URI
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and a "download target" (an open filehandle, filename, or instructions to
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provide a string), and fires a Deferred with a target-specific value when the
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download is complete. The source/target API is intended to make it easy to
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stream the incoming data to a media player or HTTP connection without having
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to consume a lot of memory for buffering.
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