Decentralized Service Examples

Run a simple http json service

We use json-server as the example http service provider.

1. Install json-server

npm install -g json-server

2. Define the data

Create a db.json and write the data into the file:

{
    "posts": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "author": "Rings Network de-service",
            "content": "Decentralize the world!"
        }
    ]
}

3. Run the json-server

json-server --watch db.json --port 8000 --host 0.0.0.0

4. Test the server response

You can use curl or just visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/posts in browsers to check if the json-server works fine.

Run a rings-node(name:node-0) and register the service

1. Install the lastest Rings node

Let's name this node node-0

cargo install rings-node

You can visit install-a-native-node.md for more installation details.

2. Create a config file for node-0:

rings init --location ./node0-config.yaml

Edit the config file to register the service:

backend:
- name: sample_json_server
  register_service: sample_json_server
  prefix: http://127.0.0.1:8000

The whole config file would be something like this:

bind: 127.0.0.1:50000
endpoint_url: http://127.0.0.1:50000
ecdsa_key: <your-node0-private-key>
ice_servers: stun://stun.l.google.com:19302
stabilize_timeout: 20
external_ip: null
data_storage:
  path: <your-data-dir>
  capacity: 200000000
measure_storage:
  path: <your-mesure-dir>
  capacity: 200000000
backend:
- name: sample_json_server
  register_service: sample_json_server
  prefix: http://127.0.0.1:8000

3. Run node-0

rings run --config ./node0-config.yaml

Run another rings-node(name:node-1) and request the service

1. Create a config file for node-1:

rings init --location ./node1-config.yaml

The whole config file would be something like this:

bind: 127.0.0.1:50001
endpoint_url: http://127.0.0.1:50001
ecdsa_key: <your-node0-private-key>
ice_servers: stun://stun.l.google.com:19302
stabilize_timeout: 20
external_ip: null
data_storage:
  path: <your-data-dir>
  capacity: 200000000
measure_storage:
  path: <your-mesure-dir>
  capacity: 200000000

2. Run node-1

rings run --config ./node1-config.yaml

Connect node-0 and node-1 together

You can connect node-0 to node-1 or per se to build a network. Or they can all connect to an existing network.

Here we connect node-0 to node-1:

rings connect node --config ./node1-config.yaml http://127.0.0.1:50001

Then we check if two nodes are connected together:

rings peer list --config ./node0-config.yaml

Result:

Did, TransportId, Status
e9ef508489695250e1af81cc4cc376a9109b68af, 4e36b64e-7292-4d9c-89b8-9d05c735301e, connected

It's connected now.

Make the request

rings send http --config ./node1-config.yaml --method GET <node0-did> sample_json_server /posts

It prints Done. if nothing wrong.

Check the response

Let's check using polling message api:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "pollMessage", "params": ["WAIT"]}' "http://127.0.0.1:50001"

Result:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"message":{"data":"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","message_type":4}},"id":1}

MessageType:

pub enum MessageType {
    /// unknown
    Unknown = 0,
    /// empty
    Empty,
    /// simple texte
    SimpleText,
    /// http request
    HttpRequest,
    /// http response
    HttpResponse,
    /// extension
    Extension,
}

So message_type 4 means HttpResponse. Let's decode the data with base64 decoding and gunzip:

echo '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' | base64 -d | gunzip

It prints something like this:

�
content-typeapplication/json; charset=utf-8content-length107etag"W/"6b-T08gZlaUt3sEratnmuahBOVvE5I"dateTue, 25 Jul 2023 13:32:44 GMTexpires-1
cache-controno-cachepragmno-cachein, Accept-Encoding access-control-allow-credentialstrue
connection
keep-alive
          x-powered-byExpressx-content-type-optionsnosniffk[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "author": "Rings Network de-service",
    "content": "Decentralize the world!"
  }
]

It's in http response format.