dconnect

Node.js module to interact with hubs implementing Direct Connect protocol

Get started

The example code below gives the main commands to interact with a hub :

var dc = require('./global.js')();

// connect to a hub
dc.connect(hub_ip, hub_port, username);

dc.on('ready', function() { //  successfully logged into the hub
  // get the list of online users
	dc.getNickList(function(list) {
		console.log(list);
		list.forEach(function(user) {
		  // download user file list
			dc.getFileList(user, function(data){
				console.log(data.toString());
			}, function(){
				console.log('Terminé !');
			});
		})

		dc.listenForSearchResults('127.0.0.1', 58642) // setup UDP server listening for search results

		// search for a specific keyword
		dc.search('atom', 0, function(r) {
			console.log(r);
		})
	})
});

dc.on('filelist-request', function(user, socket) { // new file list request
	console.log(user+' wants to download your file list');
});

// listen for p2p connections
dc.listen('127.0.0.1', 65458, 'mdcr');

Module structure

dconnect is divided into 4 different modules :

• server.js implements socket connection to the hub
• p2p.js implements server listening for peer connection (when downloading files from other users)
• share.js implement file sharing with other users (connect to users on request through the hub)
• search.js is basically an UDP socket sending/ listening search results

All theses modules are merged into a single interface in global.js. If you'd like to reimplement one of these modules to add features, use your own global.js files not to load the reimplemented modules.