onionr/src/communicatorutils/README.md

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# communicatorutils
The files in this submodule handle various subtasks and utilities for the onionr communicator.
## Files:
announcenode.py: Uses a communicator instance to announce our transport address to connected nodes
connectnewpeers.py: takes a communicator instance and has it connect to as many peers as needed, and/or to a new specified peer.
cooldownpeer.py: randomly selects a connected peer in a communicator and disconnects them for the purpose of security and network balancing.
daemonqueuehandler.py: checks for new commands in the daemon queue and processes them accordingly.
deniableinserts.py: insert fake blocks with the communicator for plausible deniability
downloadblocks.py: iterates a communicator instance's block download queue and attempts to download the blocks from online peers
housekeeping.py: cleans old blocks and forward secrecy keys
lookupadders.py: ask connected peers to share their list of peer transport addresses
lookupblocks.py: lookup new blocks from connected peers from the communicator
netcheck.py: check if the node is online based on communicator status and onion server ping results
onionrcommunicataortimers.py: create a timer for a function to be launched on an interval. Control how many possible instances of a timer may be running a function at once and control if the timer should be ran in a thread or not.
proxypicker.py: returns a string name for the appropriate proxy to be used with a particular peer transport address.
servicecreator.py: iterate connection blocks and create new direct connection servers for them.
uploadblocks.py: iterate a communicator's upload queue and upload the blocks to connected peers