Where to set the functional options API for sbot?

[ssbc]

Where to set the functional options API for sbot?

[mycognosist]

@cryptix

Thanks for the extra details! I think I understand now.

My question was basically: how to select the different options? Now I see that they're exposed by go-sbot via flags. So I can set hops to 2, for example: go-sbot -hops 2. Or I could set a custom mountpoint: go-sbot -repo "/some/other/dir". Cool. Thanks again.

[cryptix]

Hmm... Interesting! :)

Could you give a bit more context on what you are trying to do? The list of all the available options is best looked at on this godoc page for the sbot package.

The example you linked to is basically a slimmed down version of cmd/go-sbot/main.go which is basically just a thin wrapper which unpacks CLI flags and passes them on to the options API.

If go-sbot doesn't have the option you are looking for (I vaguely believe it does have all of them but would like to fix that if it doesn't) the code to create a peer inside another go program is exactly like that in the example. You just add the options (with the package name first) as one more argument to sbot.Sbot(...). They are variadic, so the number doesn't matter.

HTH?

[cryptix]

ah.. ps: cmd/sbotcli is just a ssb-client. The server/bot magic is in ssb/sbot which has an options.go, etc. but you don't need to mess with any of that unless you want new options that aren't there yet.