To provide your data through NDM you will have to create a data asset.
Data assets are created based on the plugin files created in the provider's ndm-plugins directory in the package.
To create such a plugin go to nethermind/ndm-plugins directory and create .yml file, next pick one of the types of plugins suited for you.
Plugin type used for providing data from RESTfull Web Api using HTTP requests.
File structure:
name: <name_of_the_plugin>
type: webapi
url: <url_to_the_web_api>
method: <post/get>
File example:
name: crypto-compare-web-api
type: webapi
url: https://min-api.cryptocompare.com
method: get
Process:
Let's say that we want to provide data from this public api https://dog.ceo/dog-api/. First of all we will need to create a .yml file with plugin description.
Go to nethermind/ndm-plugins/ and create dogs-plugin.yml looking like this
name: dogs-api
type: webapi
utl: https://dog.ceo/api/
method: get
Since we will only make HttpGet requests we are making the method field a get type.
After that just run your provider NDM package on the chain of your choice (depends on what currency you want to use for payments - xDai or ETH).
Next, go to Data Assets tab and create new Data Asset (click on the '+' icon).
You will be able to create data asset based on our dogs-plugin.yml file.
Since this data asset will be based on HTTP Get requests the Unit type will be Unit
and Query type will be Query.
After creating the data asset change a state to Published, connected consumers should now have option to deposit funds on your data asset and consume WebApi data.
In order for consumers to consume your data, they will just need to input the HTTP GET query into data stream input (in this case /breeds/image/random) and with that provider will get paid for every single query consumers make.
For providing data from nodes supporting JsonRpc requests.
File structure:
name: <name_of_the_plugin>
type: jsonrpc
host: <node_json_rpc_endpoint>
File example:
name: nethermind-ropsten
type: jsonrpc
host: https://ropsten.nethermind.io
Process:
The main idea behind the JsonRpc data asset is that consumer will make a JsonRpc request (just like with curl) using the javascript object.
For example, let's make ropsten.yml file where we define JsonRpc data asset plugin with connection to Nethermind's ropsten open node at ropsten.nethermind.io.
The file will look like this:
name: nethermind-ropsten
type: jsonrpc
host: https://ropsten.nethermind.io
Now run the NDM provider and you will see your plugin is initialized.
After unlocking (or creating) your account, click on the '+' icon to create new data asset - you will be able to pick your JsonRpc plugin from Plugins dropdown, since we want the consumers to pay for every single query make Unit type - unit and Query type - query.
Create the data asset and change its status to Published, after that connected consumers will be able to place deposits for this asset and consume it.
In order to make queries to data assets they will just need to make JsonRpc request similar to those in curl - creating javascript object.
Let's say that consumers want to consume data from txpool_content JsonRpc method - in order to do that, in the data stream they will need to input
{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "txpool_content", "id":1}
And the NDM will handle the rest providing the data from node and sending the payment to provider.