openRemoteDrive

@totemsdk/pear

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@totemsdk/pear / openRemoteDrive

Function: openRemoteDrive()

openRemoteDrive(pearTopicKey, options?): Promise<BareHyperdriveAdapter & object>

Open a remote Hyperdrive identified by its 64-hex pearTopicKey.

Steps:

1. Creates a Corestore for local block caching.
2. Creates a Hyperswarm and joins the topic derived from pearTopicKey.
3. Plumbs each swarm connection into Corestore's replication stream.
4. Opens a Hyperdrive seeded with the public key derived from pearTopicKey.
5. Waits for the drive to become ready (blocks are fetched from peers).

Parameters

pearTopicKey

string

— 64-hex public key of the Hyperdrive's root Hypercore

options?

RemoteDriveOptions = {}

— optional storage path + connect timeout overrides

Returns

Promise<BareHyperdriveAdapter & object>