Deal Filters

How to use deal filters

Using filters for fine-grained storage and retrieval deal acceptance

Your use case might demand very precise and dynamic control over a combination of deal parameters.

Lotus provides two IPC hooks allowing you to name a command to execute for every deal before the miner accepts it:

• Filter for storage deals.

• RetrievalFilter for retrieval deals.

The executed command receives a JSON representation of the deal parameters on standard input, and upon completion, its exit code is interpreted as:

• 0: success, proceed with the deal.

• non-0: failure, reject the deal.

The most trivial filter rejecting any retrieval deal would be something like: RetrievalFilter = "/bin/false". /bin/false is binary that immediately exits with a code of 1.

This Perl script lets the miner deny specific clients and only accept deals that are set to start relatively soon.

You can also use a third party content policy framework like CIDgravity or bitscreen by Murmuration Labs:

# grab filter program
go get -u -v github.com/Murmuration-Labs/bitscreen

# add it to both filters
Filter = "/path/to/go/bin/bitscreen"
RetrievalFilter = "/path/to/go/bin/bitscreen"