BSV Overlay Services Engine

BSV BLOCKCHAIN | Overlay Services Engine

The Overlay Services Engine enables dynamic tracking and management of UTXO-based systems that work on top of the BSV blockchain.

Table of Contents

1. Objective
2. Getting Started
3. Features & Deliverables
4. Documentation
5. Contribution Guidelines
6. Support & Contacts

Objective

• Enable a general-purpose system for tracking UTXOs
• Let each service decide what UTXOs get into the system
• Provide an efficient global storage engine for UTXO data
• Let each lookup service dynamically respond to different types of queries
• Let each lookup service have its own, specialized storage engine for its unique needs

Getting Started

Installation

You'll usually want to wrap the Engine within an HTTP server. To get set up with Express, create a new project and install everything you'll need:

npm i express body-parser @bsv/sdk @bsv/overlay hello-services knex

Basic Usage

In your server's main file, you can set everything up. Create a new Engine to run the overlay services you want, then expose some routes over HTTP. For example:

const express = require('express')
const bodyparser = require('body-parser')
const { Engine, KnexStorage, HelloTopicManager, HelloLookupService, HelloStorageEngine } = require('@bsv/overlay')
const { WoChain } = require('@bsv/sdk')
// Populate a Knexfile with your database credentials
const knex = require('knex')(require('../knexfile.js'))
const app = express()
app.use(bodyparser.json({ limit: '1gb', type: 'application/json' }))

const engine = new Engine(
    {
      hello: new HelloTopicManager(),
    },
    {
      hello: new HelloLookupService({
        storageEngine: new HelloStorageEngine({
          knex
        })
      }),
    },
    new KnexStorageEngine({
      knex
    })
  )

// This allows the API to be used everywhere when CORS is enforced
app.use((req, res, next) => {
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', '*')
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', '*')
  res.header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', '*')
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network', 'true')
  if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
    res.sendStatus(200)
  } else {
    next()
  }
})

// Serve a static documentstion site, if you have one.
app.use(express.static('public'))

// List hosted topic managers and lookup services
app.get(`/listTopicManagers`, async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const result = await engine.listTopicManagers()
    return res.status(200).json(result)
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: 'error',
      code: error.code,
      description: error.message
    })
  }
})
app.get(`/listLookupServiceProviders`, async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const result = await engine.listLookupServiceProviders()
    return res.status(200).json(result)
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: 'error',
      code: error.code,
      description: error.message
    })
  }
})

// Host documentation for the services
app.get(`/getDocumentationForTopicManager`, async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const result = await engine.getDocumentationForTopicManger(req.query.manager)
    return res.status(200).json(result)
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: 'error',
      code: error.code,
      description: error.message
    })
  }
})
app.get(`/getDocumentationForLookupServiceProvider`, async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const result = await engine.getDocumentationForLookupServiceProvider(req.query.lookupServices)
    return res.status(200).json(result)
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: 'error',
      code: error.code,
      description: error.message
    })
  }
})

// Submit transactions and facilitate lookup requests
app.post(`/submit`, async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const result = await engine.submit(req.body)
    return res.status(200).json(result)
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: 'error',
      code: error.code,
      description: error.message
    })
  }
})
app.post(`/lookup`, async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const result = await engine.lookup(req.body)
    return res.status(200).json(result)
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: 'error',
      code: error.code,
      description: error.message
    })
  }
})

// 404, all other routes are not found.
app.use((req, res) => {
  console.log('404', req.url)
  res.status(404).json({
    status: 'error',
    code: 'ERR_ROUTE_NOT_FOUND',
    description: 'Route not found.'
  })
})

// Start your Engines!
  app.listen(8080, () => {
    console.log('BSV Overlay Services Engine is listening on port', 8080)
  })

For more detailed tutorials and examples, check out the full documentation.

The Overlay Services Engine is also richly documented with code-level annotations. This should show up well within editors like VSCode.

Features & Deliverables

• UTXO Tracking
• History management and state tracking
• Lookup Services
• Storage engine abstractions
• [WIP] Examples, HTTP wrapper and Docs
• [WIP] Arc Proof Acquisition
• [WIP] Distributed Overlay Availability Advertisements
• [WIP] Federated Transaction Synchronization

Contribution Guidelines

We're always looking for contributors to help us improve the Engine. Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, or pull requests - all contributions are welcome.

1. Fork & Clone: Fork this repository and clone it to your local machine.
2. Set Up: Run npm i to install all dependencies.
3. Make Changes: Create a new branch and make your changes.
4. Test: Ensure all tests pass by running npm test.
5. Commit: Commit your changes and push to your fork.
6. Pull Request: Open a pull request from your fork to this repository. For more details, check the contribution guidelines.

For information on past releases, check out the changelog. For future plans, check the roadmap!

Support & Contacts

Project Owners: Thomas Giacomo, Darren Kellenschwiler, Jake Jones

Development Team Lead: Ty Everett

For questions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue on GitHub or contact us directly.

License

The license for the code in this repository is the Open BSV License. Refer to LICENSE.txt for the license text.

Thank you for being a part of the BSV Blockchain Overlay Services Project. Let's build the future of BSV Blockchain together!