/3box-pinning-server

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3Box pinning server

The pinning server is an ipfs and orbit-db node that persists the data of 3box users.

Pubsub messages

request to pin

This message is sent from a 3box-js client when openBox is called.

{
  type: 'PIN_DB',
  odbAddress: <orbit-db address>
}

length response

This message is sent from the pinning node as a response to PIN_DB.

{
  type: 'HAS_ENTRIES',
  odbAddress: <orbit-db address>,
  numEntries: <the number of entries that the pinning node has for the given db>
}

replicated response

This message is sent from the pinning node when a db has been replicated.

{
  type: 'REPLICATED',
  odbAddress: <orbit-db address>,
}