<div dir="ltr">Ticket [404](<a href="https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/404">https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/404</a>) talks about two ways tahoe may be extensible. I'm very interested in the first case:<br>
<div>> The answer is you either use import to load the Tahoe code and then you run it (precisely how, I'm not sure -- perhaps by calling startService() on it?)<br><br>So far, I've gotten tahoe running in Kivy's event loop with modifications to the Client class. It is pretty much what was said, I register the {{{Client}}} class object's {{{startService}}} method with kivy's twisted reactor and can access the object from kivy's buttons and lists and such. Right now, tahoe requires that it be set up with {{{tahoe.cfg}}} in a directory before you can instantiate a client object. A path to a pythonic API is to make it possible to override all tahoe.cfg options in a Client class creation. Right now the only thing you can set is "basedir". My modifications allow you to point basedir to any directory and then set the basic requirement {{{[client]introducer}}} and many of the optional things, like {{{nickname}}} and {{{web_port}}}.<br>
<br>Things basically work pythonicly right now without my modifications if you have an already configured basedir and you call things from python. I was able to set up the objects and then drop to an iPython shell and do things like create directories and upload blank files. This all is guess work and would benefit greatly from documentation. I essentially went in and looked at tests that exercise different parts of tahoe and copied what was imported, called, and passed between things. Not being an expert on twisted and interfaces, my experiment has stalled slightly.<br>
<br></div><div>Would somebody more knowledgeable than I be able to produce some documentation on using tahoe from python? Maybe just a walkthrough in iPython with creating a twisted reactor, starting it, and manipulating the Client object with helper functions to create a directories, upload some data, read directories, and read some data. Would the best thing be to create a new ticket that requests this documentation and a ticket that requests changes to the Client class so that it is fully configurable without a preconfigured directory?<br>
<br></div><div>I'm interested for three reasons. Firstly, it would be nice to have a full fledged Android/iPhone app that would not run a web service in the background. All interaction being possible programmatically allows it to be more simple (and I think may be required for Apple's app store). Second, I would love to be able to create a fuse layer on top of tahoe like [S3QL](<a href="http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/">http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/</a>). It could even just be a patch to S3QL that would bring full file system capability to tahoe. It could be as complicated as using larch, a b-tree implementation in python, to create an analog to S3QL for tahoe. Thirdly, it's a small reason, but important. Getting away from the WebAPI for controlling tahoe would be a security win for me. There are so many things about web browsers with javascript that complicate security these days that I would feel more at ease without Google or my aunt's hacked blog to have access to my tahoe data. Either way, dreaming big here.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br></div><div><br clear="all"><div>Randall Mason<br><a href="mailto:clashthebunny@gmail.com" target="_blank">clashthebunny@gmail.com</a></div>
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