D-LAN

h1. Protocols

* [[Protocol core-core]]

* [[Protocol core-GUI]]

There is two main protocols, one between cores and one between GUI and core. Both used "protocol buffers":http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ for describing the exchanged messages.

Each data sent over the network (using TCP or UDP) are formatted like this :

<pre>

<messageType:uint32><size:uint32><serializedMessage>

</pre>

Where :

* _messageType_ is a number which determine the message type, more information in the proto files.

* _size_ is the size of the following serialized message.

* _serializedMessage_ is the data serialized by protocol buffer.

h2. Links to resource

Links can be shared across peers. It locates a remote resource like folder or file from a specific peer. It doesn't contain any chunk hash, thus the peer must be online to download a file or a folder.

_ayb://[<peer name>][:<file id>][:<shared id>/<folder>/<file>]_

* <peer name> : Not required and not used to locate the resource, just an information for the user.

* <file id> : its the n first group of nibble of the m first chunk where _n * m = 40 nibbles_ (20 octets).

** 20,87cace382f7371cd3fab3cb0a53b93b7cd9719f6 : 20 chunks of 2 nibbles.

** 8,05649bcbf065e0d032ada540d4a749d98db055cf : 8 chunks of 5 nibbles.

* <shared id> : Contains only the beginning of the hash.

h3. Character encoding

TODO..

h3. Examples

* _ayb://20,87cace382f7371cd3fab3cb0a53b93b7cd9719f6_

* _ayb://pierre:20,87cace382f7371cd3fab3cb0a53b93b7cd9719f6_

* _ayb://pierre:20,87cace382f7371cd3fab3cb0a53b93b7cd9719f6:dac4f75c/my%20movies/LOLCat.avi_

* _ayb://pierre:dac4f75c/my%20movies/LOLCat.avi_

* _ayb://pierre:dac4f75c/my%20movies_