Crate agde

A general decentralized sync library supporting text and binary.

Vocabulary

Here are some terms I use throughout the codebase and documentation.

• resource - a piece of data (e.g. a file, online shared document). May also be used to denote the location of a resource.
• pier - another client on the network.
• help desire - how much a pier wants to help others in the network.
• conversation - a exchange of some related data (e.g. MessageKind::LogCheck).
• [den::Difference] a modification to a resource.
• UUID - a unique identifier for a unit (e.g. conversation, Message)
• log - internal list to compensate for inconsistencies in message arrival time.
• storage - “versions” of the data stored by the implementor
  • current storage - the current data. The resources stored here are the ones edited by the end-user.
  • public storage - what the others think our current storage looks like. Separating these enables getting the difference between the storages. This returns what we need to send to the other piers, how to mutate the public storage to get the current storage.

Re-exports

• pub use event::Event;
• pub use event::IntoEvent;
• pub use event::Kind as EventKind;
• pub use log::Check as LogCheck;
• pub use log::CheckAction as LogCheckAction;
• pub use den;

Modules

• event
  Events are a type of message which manipulate a resource.
• fast_forward
  Mechanics for reading the current data from other piers after being offline for some time.
• hash_check
  Checking of hashes of crate::resources.
• log
  Logs for crate::Manager.
• resource
  Handling of getting and setting resources.
• sync
  Module for handling the sync between piers.
• utils
  Utilities for working with some datatypes used by agde.

Structs

• Capabilities
  Describes the capabilities and properties of the client. Sent in the initial Message exchange.
• Manager
  The main manager of a client.