🧑‍💻 API Documentation

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Core API
Caching
protocols
createResolveContext
LightURL

Introduction

There are three core API's of hyper-dns, each optimized for a different usecases:

resolveProtocol(protocol, domain) → For a simple lookup of one particular protocol

const { resolveProtocol } = require('hyper-dns')
const key = await resolveProtocol('dat', 'dat-ecosystem.org')

resolve(domain) → For finding out what protocols are supported by a given domain

const { resolve } = require('hyper-dns')
const keys = await resolve('dat-ecosystem.org')
// keys contains all supported protocols with null or the key value

resolveURL(url) → If you have a given url, locate the best matching decentralized key

const { resolveURL } = require('hyper-dns')
try {
  const url = resolveURL('dat-ecosystem.org/some/path?query')
  url.protocol // to contain the best matching protocol for the given domain
  url.hostname // to contain the key, if a decentralized key was found
  url.pathname // other url properties exist as well.
} catch (error) {
  /* An error may be thrown if no protocol can be matched! */
}

Core API

const { resolveProtocol, resolve, resolveURL } = require('hyper-dns')

`async resolveProtocol(protocol, name, [opts])`

Returns either null if no key could be found or a string containing the key.

protocol name of the protocol or a protocol implementation
name name to be looked up
opts.dohLookups (optional) array of https endpoints to look up DNS records
opts.userAgent (optional) string or null of the user-agent to be used during https requests
opts.cache (Cache, optional, default caching logic differs by runtime) Caching implementation to be used during execution, set to null or undefined to prevent caching. (see Caching)
opts.ignoreCache (boolean, default=false) Can be used to ignore the content of the cache. Note: this is different from setting opts.cache = null in that a result will be written to cache even if ignoreCache is true.
opts.ignoreCachedMiss (boolean, default=false) Will retry to resolve the a name only if a miss was cached.
opts.context (optional) Context to be used for protocol execution. (see Architecture Guide)
opts.ttl (defaults to 3600 = 1 hour) Default ttl in seconds to be used if protocol doesn't specify a ttl
opts.minTTL (defaults to 30 = 1/2 min) Minimum ttl in seconds that can be used for records, good to prevent rapid cache invalidation
opts.maxTTL (defaults to 604800 = 1 week) Maximum ttl to store records for, good to indicator for stale requests.
opts.corsWarning handler with signature (name: string, url: string) => void to be called if a http request has been noticed to have not any cors headers set, set to falsish to prevent any message.
opts.localPort (optional) port used when trying to lookup well-known entries on a local domain.
opts.protocols (optional) list of supported protocols, defaults to common list of supported protocols. (see Protocol Guide)

Note: resolveProtocol.DEFAULTS contains the object with all defaults.

About the .corsWarning option: Some protocols support the lookup of https resources to identify a name. This is problematic when you try to run hyper-dns in a browser if that domain didn't set the CORS header access-control-allow-origin = *, as it will not notice why a request failed. In order for the users of hyper-dns to quickly notice if that is the case, it will show a warning on the command line.

`async resolve(name, [opts])`

Returns an object with the resolveProtocol() results for all given protocols, like:

{
  dat: 'ae14a...fc651',
  hyper: null,
  cabal: '3bea1...8569a',
  // The protocols are derived from the `opts.protocols` option
}

opts The same options as for resolveProtocols() apply.

Note: resolve.DEFAULTS contains the object with all defaults.

`async resolveURL(url, [opts])`

opts uses the same options as resolveProtocol but adds:
opts.protocolPreference (optional: Array of names) order of protocols to look up with preference
opts.fallbackProtocol (default: https) protocol to be used if no other protocol can be found.

Note: resolveURL.DEFAULTS contains the object with all defaults.

Returns a LightURL instance that contains all properties of the input url in a readable manner.

The resolveURL API has two different modes that behave slightly different:

If you pass in a URL like hyper://dat-ecosystem.org with a full protocol specified, it will look up only the hyper protocol and throw a require('hyper-dns').RecordNotFoundError if no record for that protocol could be found.

try {
  const url = await resolveURL('hyper://dat-ecosystem.org')
  url.href === 'hyper://ae14a...fc651' // if a hyper record was found
} catch (err) {
  err.code === 'ENOTFOUND' // if no HYPER record was found
}

If you pass in a URL like dat-ecosystem.org it will try, with preference, all given protocols and use the first result as result. If non of the protocols could be found it will fall-back to opts.fallbackProtocol.
```
const url = await resolveURL('dat-ecosystem.org')

url.href === 'hyper://ae14a...fc651' // if a hyper record was found
url.href === 'https://dat-ecosystem.org' // if no record was found
```

resolveURL() will work for local domains if the protocol supports it! In this case it fill forward the port specified to as opts.localPort if it hasn't been overwritten.

Caching

const { cache, createCacheSQLite, createCacheLRU } = require('hyper-dns')

All Cache instances have to implement a common interface:

interface Cache {
  get (
    protocol: string,
    name: string
  ): Promise<
    undefined // If no cache entry was found
    | {
      key:
        string
        | null // Indicating a cache-miss! (Needs to be stored)
      ,
      expires: number
    }
  >

  set (
    protocol: string,
    name: string,
    entry: { key: string | null, expires: number }
  ): Promise<void>
}

The result of get() operations will be sanitizied.

`cache`

The cache holds the instance for the default opts.cache option to be used by resolveProtocol, resolve or resolveURL.

In browsers this will default to a lru-cache and in node to the sqlite-cache.

`createCacheLRU([opts])`

This is the default cache when using hyper-dns in the browser.

opts.maxSize (number, default=1000) Amount of entries to keep in the cache.

The LRU cache uses the quick-lru paging mechanism to keep entries in memory

`createCacheSQLite([opts])`

This is only available in Node.js! With its default options, it is also the default cache of resolve operations in Node.js! Using this operation in the browser will cause an error!

opts.file (string, default=see below) file path for the cache
opts.table (string, default=names) database table to store cache entries in
opts.maxSize (number, default=1000) amount of domains to keep in memory
opts.autoClose (number, default=5000) milliseconds of inactivity before the SQLite instance is closed. Set autoClose to 0 to keep the database open.
opts.maxWalSize (number, default=10485760) max size that triggers a wal_checkpoint operation
opts.walCheckInterval (number, default 5000) interval to check the wal size

The default file for storing data is system specific and we use the env-paths library to figure out where it is stored.

envPaths('hyper-dns', { suffix: '' }).cache + '/cache.db'

↑ This is the pattern for the default path.

Implementation details

It will start a sqlite instance on demand and will close it after the specified .opts.autoClose timeout.
It will keep once requested entries in a lru cache with the provided .maxSize to reduce I/O.
It uses the journal_mode = WAL which is done for better performance.

Note: This implementation uses the better-sqlite3 library.

`protocols`

const { protocols } = require('hyper-dns')
protocols.dat // certainly supported protocol

Object containing all default supported protocols. More about this in the Protocol Guide.

`createResolveContext(opts)`

const { createResolveContext } = require('hyper-dns')

createResolveContext can be used to create Context implementations for the opts.context option of resolve...() operations. (more in the Protocol Guide)

The following options form resolveProtocol(opts) are used: ttl, corsWarning, userAgent, dohLookups, localPort. More about these options in the resolveProtocol(opts) documentation.

signal (AbortSignal, optional) - an abort signal to be used to cancel all protocol requests.

`LightURL`

Initially the URL implementation was supposed to be used. Sadly browsers and node.js are not 100% compatible and furthermore decentralized web protocols also have an additional "version" specifier.

This is why hyper-dns provides a custom LightURL, named to prevent confusion with the regular URL.

const { LightURL } = require('hyper-dns')

const url = new LightURL('dat://dat-ecosystem.org/organization')
url.protocol == 'dat://'
url.hostname == 'dat-ecosystem.org'
url.pathname == '/organization'
url.href == 'dat://dat-ecosystem.org/organization'

`new LightURL(url, [base])`

url (string) the url, or path segment to be used to create the string
base (string or LightURL instance, optional)

The biggest incompatibility to URL is that path names and query strings are not uri encoded but kept in their original form!

Important Note: Instances are frozen upon creation. This means you can't modify properties as you usually would with URL instances to reduce complexity.

Another difference is the additional versionedHref property which contains the parsed version as well!

const { LightURL, resolveURL } = require('hyper-dns')

const input = '../démonstration.html'
const base = await resolveURL('dat://dat-ecosystem.org+1234/base/index.html')

// Getting the relative path for a dat URL
const url = new LightURL(input, base)

// To stay compatible the .href doesn't contain a version
url.href === 'dat://dat-ecosystem.org/démonstration.html'

// But the new property versionedHref contains everything
url.versionedHref === 'dat://dat-ecosystem.org+1234/démonstration.html'

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🧑‍💻 API Documentation

Introduction

Core API

`async resolveProtocol(protocol, name, [opts])`

`async resolve(name, [opts])`

`async resolveURL(url, [opts])`

Caching

`cache`

`createCacheLRU([opts])`

`createCacheSQLite([opts])`

Implementation details

`protocols`

`createResolveContext(opts)`

`LightURL`

`new LightURL(url, [base])`

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🧑‍💻 API Documentation

Introduction

Core API

async resolveProtocol(protocol, name, [opts])

async resolve(name, [opts])

async resolveURL(url, [opts])

Caching

cache

createCacheLRU([opts])

createCacheSQLite([opts])

Implementation details

protocols

createResolveContext(opts)

LightURL

new LightURL(url, [base])

`async resolveProtocol(protocol, name, [opts])`

`async resolve(name, [opts])`

`async resolveURL(url, [opts])`

`cache`

`createCacheLRU([opts])`

`createCacheSQLite([opts])`

`protocols`

`createResolveContext(opts)`

`LightURL`

`new LightURL(url, [base])`