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# Tau
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-Encrypted tasks management app using peer-to-peer network and raft consensus.
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-multiple users can collaborate by working on the same tasks, and all users will have synced task list.
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+Encrypted tasks management app using peer-to-peer network.
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+Multiple users can collaborate by working on the same tasks, and all users will have synced task list.
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## Install
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@@ -196,3 +196,87 @@ Note: All filters from the previous section could work with mod commands.
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```shell
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% tau switch darkfi # darkfi workspace needs to be configured in config file
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```
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+## Tau Architecture
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+Tau using Model–view software architecture. All the operations, main data structures,
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+and handling messages from network protocol, happen in the Model side.
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+While keeping the View independent of the Model and focusing on getting update
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+from it continuously, and preserve and apply rules to received data.
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+### Model
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+The Model consist of chains(EventNodes) structured as a tree, each chain has Event-based
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+list. To maintain strict order each event dependent on the hash of the previous event
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+in the chain's events. All the chains will shared a root event to preserve the tree
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+structure. <em> check the diagram bellow </em>
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+On receiving new event from the network protocol, the event will be added to the
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+orphans list, then a process of reorganizing the events in orphans list will
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+start, if the Model doesn't have the ancestor event it will ask the network
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+for the missing events, otherwise the event will be added to a chain in the
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+model according to its ancestor. For example, in the diagram below,
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+if new event (Event-A2) received, it will be added to the first chain.
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+### View
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+The view's responsibility is to checking the chains in the Model and asking for
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+new events, while keeping a list of event ids which have been imported
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+previously to prevent importing the same event twice, then order these events
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+according to the timestamp attached to each event, the last step is
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+dispatching these events to the clients.
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+<em> check the diagram bellow </em>
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+## Structures
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+### EventId
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+Hash of all the metadata in the event
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+ type EventId = [u8; 32];
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+### EventAction
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+The event could have many actions according to the underlying data.
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+ enum EventAction { ... };
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+### Event
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+| Description | Data Type | Comments |
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+|----------------------- | -------------- | --------------------------- |
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+| previous_event_hash | `EventId` | Hash of the previous event |
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+| Action | `EventAction` | event's action |
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+| Timestamp | u64 | event's timestamp |
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+### EventNode
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+| Description | Data Type | Comments |
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+|--------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
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+| parent | Option<`EventNode`> | Only current root has this set to None |
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+| Event | `Event` | The event itself |
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+| Children | Vec<`EventNode`> | The events followed this event |
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+### Model
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+| Description | Data Type | Comments |
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+|-------------- | -------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
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+| current_root | `EventId` | The root event for the tree |
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+| orphans | Vec<`Event`> | Recently added events |
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+| event_map | HashMap<`EventId`, `EventNode`> | The actual tree |
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+### View
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+| Description | Data Type | Comments |
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+|-------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
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+| seen | HashSet<`EventId`> | A list of events have imported from Model |
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