Re: [GNUnet-developers] Binding scheduler with another event loop, gnunet-search and gnunet-publish metadata

[Christian Grothoff]

On 3/22/19 5:37 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> A) I would like to know how to bind gnunet event loop
>    aka. scheduler to another event loop that will be
>    the main event loop without relying on threads.
>    The reason is in scheme I can use call/cc to implement
>    something similar to python async / await the end result
>    is that there no more or at least less callbacks in my code.
> 
>    Does anyone successfully integrated gnunet with another
>    event loop?
> 
>    Almost exactly last year, there was some discussion about
>    this topic on IRC and gnunet-web.

AFAIK only the existing 'select' implementation was finished. The API to
do this exists though: GNUNET_SCHEDULER_driver_init().

> B) Does it make sense to group search queries using a single call
>    to gnunet-search? Does it save bandwidth or something?

It would not save bandwidth.

> C) In gnunet-publish there is an option -m aka. meta:
> 
> 
>    -m, --meta=TYPE:VALUE      set the meta-data for the given
>                               TYPE to the given VALUE
> 
>    How this metadata is used?

It is included in the search result for the file.

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