systemquery/src/lib/SystemQuery.mjs

"use strict";


import Agent from './agent/Agent.mjs';
import InfoBroker from './core/InfoBroker.mjs';

class SystemQuery {
	constructor(config, mode = "agent") {
		// The operating mode. Possible values: agent [default], query_client
		// TODO: Is this the best way of doing this? Maybe we should have a separate class for this? I'm not sure.
		this.mode = mode;
		this.config = config;
		this.info = new InfoBroker();
	}
	
	async init() {
		///
		// 1: Create agent
		///
		this.agent = new Agent(this.config);
		await this.agent.init();
		
		///
		// 2: Attach listeners
		///
		this.agent.on("message-query", this.handle_query.bind(this));
		this.agent.on("message-query-response", this.handle_query_response.bind(this));
	}
	
	async handle_query(peer, msg) {
		// 1: Validate input
		if(typeof msg.table !== "string"
			|| !this.info.is_valid_table(msg.table)) return;
		
		// 2: Fetch system info
		let table = await this.info.fetch_table(msg.table);
		if(table === null) return;
		
		// 3: Return to requester
		await peer.send("query-response", { result: table });
	}
	async handle_query_response(peer, msg) {
		
	}
	
	
	async fetch_table(name) {
		// If it isn't valid for us, it ain't gonna be valid for anyone else....
		if(!this.info.is_valid_table(name)) return null;
		
		const responses = {}; // peer id → table
		const handle_response = async (peer, msg) => {
			// TODO: Validate response. Is it the right table? Is it even a table? Note that multiple fetch_table calls may be running in parallel, so we should not make too much of a fuss if we get the wrong table by accident.
			// TODO: It would be seriously cool to have fetch_table() be an async generator that yields pairs of peer ids and tables as they come in.
			if(no_peers_left_or_hit_timeout) {
				this.off("message-query-response", handle_response);
			}
		};
		
		this.on("message-query-response", handle_response);
		
		// FUTURE: Add a cache here? Note that we also do not listen for query responses unless we've asked for a table.
	}
}

SystemQuery.Create = async function(config) {
	let result = new SystemQuery(config);
	await result.init();
	return result;
}

export default SystemQuery;