Development

This document describes the directory structure for this project, and is mostly aimed at developers.

1 Project structure

The project can be roughly split up into 2 parts, the networking part and the local part. The networking protocol used to transfer packets between computers builds use all of the same concepts employed by the local part, but also a lot if complexity only related to it specifically. In order to get a feeling for how the program is used, CLI contains the command line options. However, that doesn't fully explain all of the abstractions, which are very much needed to understand the way the program is intended to be used.

In Packets you can find the most core abstraction for the whole project, what a packets is and the different kind of packets that the program sees.

In Index, the most fundamental datastructure is described, which in many ways is the core of the whole implementation. The index file format describes the files and directories a packet contains, and is used with the internet protocoll for transfer of this information between computers. The index is what makes changing packets and uploading the efficient, as not every single file has to be uploaded every single time.

In Networking, the protocoll for the internet protocll is described, and the functionality the server is intended to provide.