Inter-App Communication

This section describes how a custom subprotocol can be implemented for allowing communication between different applications.

To implement a custom subprotocol, this library provides the ITalkReqAndRespHandler interface that can be inherited into a class containing custom logic. This class can handle application-specific subprotocols using TALKREQ and TALKRESP messages. Here is an example of this:

public class CustomHandler : ITalkReqAndRespHandler
{
    public byte[]? HandleRequest(byte[] protocol, byte[] request)
    {
        // Handle the incoming TalkReq request here
        // Return response payload or null
    }

    public byte[]? HandleResponse(byte[] response)
    {
        // Handle the incoming TalkResp response here
        // Return processed response or null
    }
}

An instance of CustomHandler can then be passed as a parameter to the CreateDefault method:

ITalkReqAndRespHandler customHandler = new CustomHandler(); 
Discv5Protocol discv5 = Discv5Builder.CreateDefault(bootstrapEnrs, customHandler);

Alternatively, if Discv5Builder is used, then the instance of CustomHandler can be passed to it using:

Discv5Protocol discv5 = new Discv5Builder()
                        .WithConnectionOptions(connectionOptions)
                        .WithSessionOptions(sessionOptions)
                        .WithTableOptions(tableOptions)
                        .WithBootstrapEnrs(bootstrapEnrs)
                        .WithEnrBuilder(enrBuilder)
                        .WithEnrEntryRegistry(enrEntryRegistry)
                        .WithLoggerFactory(loggerFactory)
                        .WithTalkResponder(customHandler) // Custom handler
                        .Build();