View Source ExIpfsPubsub (Elixir IPFS Pubsub Experiment for Elixir v0.0.1)
ExIpfsPubsub is where the Pubsub commands of the IPFS API reside.
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Functions
Get next message from the Pubsub Topic in your inbox or wait for one to arrive.
List the topics you are currently subscribed to.
List the peers you are currently connected to.
Publish a message to a topic.
Subscribe to messages on a topic and listen for them.
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@spec get_pubsub_topic_message() :: any()
Get next message from the Pubsub Topic in your inbox or wait for one to arrive.
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List the topics you are currently subscribed to.
@spec peers(binary()) :: {:ok, any()} | ExIpfs.Api.error_response()
List the peers you are currently connected to.
https://docs.ipfs.io/reference/http/api/#api-v0-pubsub-peers
parameters
Parameters
topic
- The topic to list peers for.
@spec pub(binary(), binary()) :: {:ok, any()} | ExIpfs.Api.error_response()
Publish a message to a topic.
https://docs.ipfs.io/reference/http/api/#api-v0-pubsub-pub
parameters
Parameters
`topic` - The topic to publish to.
`data` - The data to publish.
usage
Usage
ExIpfsPubsub.sub("mymessage", "mytopic")
@spec sub(binary(), pid()) :: {:ok, pid()} | ExIpfs.Api.error_response()
Subscribe to messages on a topic and listen for them.
https://docs.ipfs.io/reference/http/api/#api-v0-pubsub-sub
Messages are sent to the process as a tuple of {:ex_ipfs_pubsub_topic_message, message}
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This should make it easy to pattern match on the messages in a receive do loop.
parameters
Parameters
topic
- The topic to subscribe to.
pid
- The process to send the messages to.
usage
Usage
ExIpfsPubsub.sub(self(), "mytopic")
Returns {:ok, pid} where pid is the pid of the GenServer that is listening for messages. Messages will be sent to the provided as a parameter to the function.