BitDaemon

BitDaemon will be a BitTorrent client which runs as a daemon allowing multiple clients to connect to it and control it, but for now its just a set of ideas. at the moment this page is just a scratch pad describing those ideas

Current Planned Deps:

• [http://dbus.freedesktop.org DBus]

• [http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/ libdaemon] (maybe...)

• [http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ libTorrent]

• [http://www.gtk.org/ glib] (and GObject)

Communication between it and its clients will happen via. a defined DBus interface (there might be a current Draft of the interface spec in /SpecDraft)

Tracker communication will use libTorrent

Hooks: Hooks allow you to run anything when something happens, for example when a download finishes, BitDaemon should implement hooks in 2 ways:

• something like the way subversion [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s02.html#svn-ch-5-sect-2.1 impelements them], running a script if its available on the local filesystem

• Via. DBus signals, an Application can register a callback function for a signal

D-Bus interface

BitDaemon will use the org.dyndns.tfkyle.BitDaemon D-Bus message bus name, there will be one Global interface "org.dyndns.tfkyle.BitDaemon" at path /org/dyndns/tfkyle/bitdaemon, and multiple "org.dyndns.tfkyle.BitDaemon.Torrent" interfaces on the paths "/org/dyndns/tfkyle/bitdaemon/torrents/<torrent UUID>" where the torrent UUID is a uuid generated when adding a torrent