Useful Developer Info
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Installation from source is described in the Installation.
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Testing a connection with PingPong protocolTo check if two nodes are connected and to see the round trip time for message exchange between them, get the overlay address from one node, for example local node 2:
Make sure that Debug API is enabled and address configured as in examples above.
And use that address in the Debug API call on another node, for example, local node 1:
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Generating protobufTo process protocol buffer files and generate the Go code from it two tools are needed:
Makefile rule protobuf
can be used to automate protoc-gen-gogofaster
installation and code generation:
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TracingDevelopers can gain an additional level of insight into the node by enabling tracing
. To make use of Tracing, we advice to make use of jaeger.
Set up tracing by:
Start jaeger:
docker run -p 6831:6831/udp -p 16686:16686 jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest
start locally two bee nodes (different data dirs and ports) and connect them (see "Start a test network" in the advanced section) with
--tracing
flag provided for both nodes
Make a call to the PingPong API on one of the two nodes (
curl -XPOST localhost:1735/pingpong/<overlay address other node>
).
Validate tracing in the web interface (http://localhost:16686/
).