How to get multiple nodes by single request?

Question

gun 0.8.8

Is it possible to get multiple nodes by single get request?

For example, something like this

gun.mget([ "nodeNameA", "nodeNameB" ], function(value) 
  console.log(value);
  /*
    {
      "nodeNameA": { my: "Special", variable: 123 },
      "nodeNameB": { the: "Glory", answer: 42 }
    }
  */
  // ... do something ...
});

In many databases, you can get multiple objects by a single query. Due to the network latency sometimes it is faster to get a single response instead of hundreds of small ones.

Answer 1

@trex ,

Using the extended API .open(cb) on a table is probably what you want.

Here is an example:

var gun = Gun();

gun.get('nodeNameA').put({ my: "Special", variable: 123 });
gun.get('table').set(gun.get('nodeNameA'));


gun.get('nodeNameB').put({ the: "Glory", answer: 42 });
gun.get('table').set(gun.get('nodeNameB'));


gun.get('table').open(function(data, key){
  console.log("update:", data);
  /*
    {
      "nodeNameA": { my: "Special", variable: 123 },
      "nodeNameB": { the: "Glory", answer: 42 }
    }
  */
});

Play with it yourself here: http://jsbin.com/ditohivovo/edit?js,console !

Documentation is available here:

https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/API#open

Note: You must include it with require('lib/open.js') or <script src="gun/lib/open.js"></script> in the browser.