examples

[thatcodeguy]

Any chance some examples of how to use the different crates together will be added?

[GGist]

Yes, I will definitely be adding some examples in the next few days of how the different crates will interact with one another. The last two crates that I really needed before I could make a good example were bip_peer (high priority) and bip_select (not as crucial, but would definitely make piece selection cleaner).

I am mostly doing a sweep over all of the crates in this repository to iron out some bugs/rough edges. Crates that are currently ready:

• bip_bencode
• bip_handshake
• bip_metainfo
• bip_disk
• bip_peer (making some last enhancements here)

If its helpful for you in the mean time, bip_handshake, bip_metainfo, and bip_disk, all have runnable examples for using each of those crates individually.

For a good bittorrent client, I also need to implement:

• bip_select

And crates which could be used, but largely need a rewrite since they aren't migrated to tokio yet (so usage may be un-ergonomic):

• bip_dht
• bip_utracker

I also created https://github.com/GGist/bittorrent-rs a couple days ago, which will eventually be a library and cli operating at a higher level than what these crates expose (but using these crates internally).

[thatcodeguy]

Alright. Thanks for the detailed information, greatly appreciated!

I'll keep an eye on this. :)

[GGist]

Initial example is up, it does require a bit of an understanding of tokio to really grok, but hopefully it can point you in the right direction.

Also creating this example caused me to see some issues/high priority enhancements with the project. In particular, #100, #103, #108, #110, #112, #113, #99, #101, #102, and #109 so thanks for that 👍

[zonque]

Is there any application that uses the crates in this repo to implement a somewhat more advanced use case? crates.io pointed me a a repo called GGist/bittorrent which does not seem to exist (anymore?).

I'm specifically looking for an example on how to implement nodes for seeing and leeching, using DHT.