scala-torrent

As a personal challenge I decided to create a BitTorrent client in Scala. I chose this subject for two primary reasons:

• To explore new topics and problems aside from the iOS and web development projects I'm usually doing
• To gain more experience with Akka, as the subject is a good fit for the actor model

To make things more interesting, I do intend to only use the specification of the protocol and shall not study any existing implementation in any language.

• http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
• http://jonas.nitro.dk/bittorrent/bittorrent-rfc.html
• https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification

Progress

• [✔] CLI
• [✔] Bencode parsing and encoding
• [✔] Communication with tracker
• [✔] Modelling and (un)marshalling of the Peer Wire Protocol messages
• [✔] Connection and handshake with peers
• [TODO] File exchange
• [TODO] Actor supervision
• [TODO] Actor testing

At this point I am not planning on implementing extensions to the protocol such as DHT.