Server

The server is a core component for interacting with a Calimero node. Calimero can be embedded with your client to make it a self-contained node, or it can run as a remote node that multiple clients can connect to, allowing centralized state management.

Core Capabilities

• JSON-RPC API: Provides a standardized way for clients to query or mutate the state of their counterpart applications on the node, ensuring seamless integration and communication.

• WebSocket Interface: Allows clients to subscribe to events emitted from applications, enabling real-time reactions to activity triggered by other peers in the network.

• Admin API: Manages various aspects of the node, including:

  • Context Administration: Create, delete, invite others to contexts, and accept invitations.
  • Storage Management: Track usage, view raw state storage for each context, and view encrypted blobs.
  • State Management: Manually garbage collect state-transitional transactions.
  • Network Management: Manually connect to peers and manage blocklists.
  • Application Management: Manage installed applications, create contexts from applications, delete applications if no contexts are associated, and manually sideload applications.
  • Peer Identity Management: Rotate peer identities without affecting context identities.
  • Node Metrics: Track network bandwidth usage, both total and by context, to manage resource usage effectively.