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Updated TunnelCommunity docs
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qstokkink authored Oct 23, 2024
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* ``build_tunnels()``\ : which will start making the required amount of circuits for the given hop count
* ``active_data_circuits()``\ : will return the currently available circuits to send data over
* ``find_circuits()``\ : will return the currently available circuits to send data over
* ``tunnels_ready()``\ : the quotient of available circuits to send over, compared to ``settings.min_circuits``
* ``tunnel_data()``\ : which will send data to some destination through an exit node
* ``register_service()``\ : which provide end-to-end connections for a particular service
* ``join_swarm()``\ : which provide end-to-end connections for a particular service

Note that you will have to call ``build_tunnels()`` before sending any data.
For example ``build_tunnels(1)`` will construct 1 hop circuits to maintain a circuit pool of a size between ``settings.min_circuits`` and ``settings.max_circuits``.
Initializing these settings will be covered in a later section.

You can then call ``tunnel_data()`` to send data through a circuit (and eventually an exit node) to some destination.
The circuit to send over should be one of the circuits returned by active_data_circuits().
The circuit to send over should be one of the circuits returned by find_circuits().
The destination can be any ip + port tuple.
The message type should be ``u"data"`` and finally the payload can be an arbitrary message.
For example one could send the packet ``1`` to ``("1.2.3.4", 5)``\ :

.. code-block:: python
community.tunnel_data(community.active_data_circuits()[0], ("1.2.3.4", 5), u"data", "1")
community.tunnel_data(community.find_circuits()[0], ("1.2.3.4", 5), MyPayload("data"))
Hidden services
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To do this, some sort of DHT mechanism needs to be registered (currently Tribler uses mainline DHT).
Whatever DHT mechanism is chosen should be placed in the ``dht_provider`` attribute of the ``HiddenTunnelCommunity``.

Whenever a peer is found for a service, or rather the anonymizing relay for a peer, the callback defined through ``register_service()`` is called with the available peers.
Whenever a peer is found for a service, or rather the anonymizing relay for a peer, the callback defined through ``join_swarm()`` is called with the available peers.
You can then use this peer to ``tunnel_data()`` to.
The complete example is given below:

.. code-block:: python
def on_peer(peer):
community.tunnel_data(community.active_data_circuits()[0], peer, u"data", "my message to this peer")
community.register_service("my service identifier", hops=1, on_peer)
def on_peer(peer_address):
community.tunnel_data(community.find_circuits()[0], peer_address, MyPayload("my message to this peer"))
community.join_swarm(b"my service identifier", 1, on_peer)
TunnelSettings
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* *max_time*\ : the time after which a circuit will be removed (for security reasons)
* *max_time_inactive*\ : the time after which an idle circuit is removed
* *max_traffic*\ : the amount of traffic after which a circuit will be removed (for security reasons)
* *become_exitnode*\ : whether or not we will exit data for others (may have legal ramifications)
* *peer_flags*\ : the type of peer that is being run, e.g., whether or not we will exit data for others (may have legal ramifications)

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