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Gateway

This ODIN gateway server is written in Deno. It regulates access by spreading ODIN clients over available ODIN servers based on current and future usage. It also performs basic checks on customer license conditions.

Setup Development Environment

The following prerequisites are necessary to start development:

Configuration

The gateway is configured using a TypeScript configuration file (config.ts). In addition, the following optional command-line arguments are available to enforce specific options:

OptionDescription
--hostThe IP address to listen on
--portThe TCP port number to listen on
--sslEnable HTTPS
--certificateThe certificate file to use
--privatekeyThe private key file to use

Note: For local testing, using mkcert is recommended.

Importing Customer Keys

Instead of providing a static list of customer keys in the gateway configuration file, you can also write your own custom import function, which needs to return a Promise<Customer[]> value.

customerApi: {
updateFunction: myFunction, // async function returning a list of customers
updateInterval
:
300, // interval in seconds
}
,

This function can be used to either fetch your customer keys from a RESTful API or a reload file on disk. Here's an example:

async function myFunction(): Promise<Customer[]> {
try {
const response = await fetch("https://domain.tld/api/customer-keys");
if (response.status !== 200) {
throw "something went wrong";
}
return await response.json();
} catch (_e) {
// handle error
}
return [];
}

How to Start

# start a HTTP server on port 7000
deno run --unstable --allow-net --import-map=imports.json main.ts

# start a HTTPS server on port 7000
deno run --unstable --allow-net --allow-read=. --import-map=imports.json main.ts --ssl

Note: If you don't want to install Deno on the target system, you can also compile the scripts into a self-containing executable. Click here for details.

Public API

Authentication

Authentication for the public API is done using a Bearer token signed with an ODIN access key. When specified, the audience claim (aud) in the token must be set to gateway. The payload of a decoded JWT looks like this:

{
"rid": "foo",
"uid": "bar",
"aud": "gateway",
"sub": "connect",
"exp": 1669852860,
"nbf": 1669852800
}

For details on generating tokens, please refer to @4players/odin-tokens.

RPC Methods

To use any of the following methods, the JWT used to authorize must have its name listed in the subject claim (sub).

Connect

Authorizes ODIN clients to access the room specified in the Bearer token and responds with a new JWT signed with the gateway master key, which can be used to join a room on an attached ODIN server.

curl --request POST \
--url http://localhost:7000/ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "Connect",
"params": {},
"id": 1
}'

RoomClose

Closes the specified room (if available) and prevents it from being joined again until ban_time is expired.

curl --request POST \
--url http://localhost:7000/ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "RoomClose",
"params": {
"room_id": "${ROOM_ID}",
"ban_time": ${OPTIONAL_TIME_IN_SECONDS},
},
"id": 1
}'

RoomUpdate

Updates the global user data of the specified room using the given user_data byte array.

curl --request POST \
--url https://localhost:7000/ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "RoomUpdate",
"params": {
"room_id": "${ROOM_ID}",
"user_data": ${ARRAY_OF_BYTES}
},
"id": 1
}'

RoomBanClient

Kicks all clients matching the specified user_id from the specified room and prevents them from joining again until ban_time is expired.

curl --request POST \
--url http://localhost:7000/ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "RoomBanClient",
"params": {
"room_id": "${ROOM_ID}",
"user_id": "${PEER_USER_ID}",
"ban_time": ${OPTIONAL_TIME_IN_SECONDS},
},
"id": 1
}'

RoomSendMessage

Sends arbitrary data to all clients matching the specified user_id in the specified room.

curl --request POST \
--url https://localhost:7000/ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "RoomSendMessage",
"params": {
"room_id": "${ROOM_ID}",
"user_id": "${PEER_USER_ID}",
"message": ${ARRAY_OF_BYTES}
},
"id": 1
}'