Glossary
Warning, many of these entries added by a new user whilst attempting to get to grips with GUN:
A reserved field in a gun node object acting as a key for the node's metadata. E.g.
{
"_" : { ... }, // meta data object
...
} //node object
- Symbol used to denote a node's soul in a node's metadata object.
- Symbol used to enter frozen space, roughly "the following is a hash, data got from this context should match it"
- Symbol used to denote a gun reference when acting as a key in a node's object
Symbol used to denote state vectors (represented by an number) for a node's properties. Used by the Hypothetical Amnesia Machine.
Symbol used to say "the following represents an public key"
Symbol used to say that "the following text is an alias to a public key"
A mapping from a utf encoded string to a public key. denoted with @, e.g. @bob, @alice. Note. Unclear to me whether this applies locally in a user context or globally across whole gun system.
An object that contains unique nodes.
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A state machine held by each node that is used to determine which is the correct version of a given object to use.
A collaborative network where each peer is responsible for forwarding others' messages (and responding to requests if it has the data). Refers to the concept of a mesh network.
An object within a graph. It can contain primitive values, but not other objects (only pointers to other nodes). Also known as a vertex in graph theory.
When one group of peers can't communicate another, such as two servers losing connection between each other, but still serving clients.
A single device on a mesh network. Usually takes both roles of client and server.
An intelligent merge between two objects. Unlike Object.assign, it uses the HAM conflict resolution engine to ensure updates are merged commutatively.
A special type of node in gun used for adding secondary indices (via the .key() method). It provides a list of unique IDs to pseudo-merge into an aggregate node.
The library that handles security, encryption and authorisation.
A link from one graph node to another. The is denoted by the # in the node's object. Looks like { '#': 'aOCLhos5ADx3' }
The zeroth node, the node with no key. The node at which a users starts to traverse their view of the Universe
A synonym for an object Universally Unique Identifier. Each node in gun has one (named "#" in the object metadata).
The sum total of all nodes and graphs across every peer in the application.
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