Using OrbitDBAccessController results in - "Message": "unable to create store: unable to acquire an access controller: unable to create access controller: the OrbitDB instance must provide a key value store"

[mar1n3r0]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Package version

1.22.1

Golang version

1.23.3

Bug description

// NewIPFSAccessController Returns a default access controller for OrbitDB database
func NewOrbitDBAccessController(ctx context.Context, db iface.BaseOrbitDB, params accesscontroller.ManifestParams, options ...accesscontroller.Option) (accesscontroller.Interface, error) {
	if db == nil {
		return &orbitDBAccessController{}, fmt.Errorf("an OrbitDB instance is required")
	}

	kvDB, ok := db.(iface.OrbitDBKVStoreProvider)
	if !ok {
		return &orbitDBAccessController{}, fmt.Errorf("the OrbitDB instance must provide a key value store")
	}

Somehow expects db which is BaseOrbitDB to implement OrbitDBKVStoreProvider.

Current behavior

"Message": "unable to create store: unable to acquire an access controller: unable to create access controller: the OrbitDB instance must provide a key value store"

Expected behavior

Create a document store with OrbitDBAccessController

Environment

Linux Ubuntu 24.10

Other

No response

[D4ryl00]

Hello, I read the orbitDB implementation to try to understand your issue.

What I can understand in NewOrbitDBAccessController is that we want a BaseOrbitDB parameter that can also implement OrbitDBKVStoreProvider.

You can find that OrbitDB implements either BaseOrbitDB and OrbitDBKVStoreProvider: https://github.com/berty/go-orbit-db/blob/master/iface/interface.go#L157-L163

Furthermore, we can see that it's an OrbitDB instance that is passed as an argument to NewOrbitDBAccessController here: https://github.com/berty/go-orbit-db/blob/master/orbitdb.go#L66-L84

So my question is, when you use NewOrbitDBAccessController, does the db parameter implement both interfaces?

GitHub

go-orbit-db/iface/interface.go at master · berty/go-orbit-db

Go version of P2P Database on IPFS. Contribute to berty/go-orbit-db development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

go-orbit-db/orbitdb.go at master · berty/go-orbit-db

Go version of P2P Database on IPFS. Contribute to berty/go-orbit-db development by creating an account on GitHub.

[mar1n3r0]

Hi, the problem was that the registration of the access controller was passing an instance of BaseOrbitDB. The tests were reflecting this problem and didn't pass. I have merged package baseorbitdb into packageorbitdb and all was resolved. Will create a PR in case you find this approach useful and want to merge it upstream.

[D4ryl00]

The tests were reflecting this problem and didn't pass.
Sorry, which tests don't pass? Locally, all tests pass and also on the CI.
Thank you.

[mar1n3r0]

https://github.com/stateless-minds/go-orbit-db/blob/88956dea51e5a826c0e1d038177adaf8589e0167/tests/create_open_test.go#L239

There were no tests for the OrbitDBAccessController. As soon as I added them the mentioned error started appearing.

GitHub

go-orbit-db/tests/create_open_test.go at 88956dea51e5a826c0e1d038177adaf8589e0167 · stateless-minds/go-orbit-db

Go version of P2P Database on IPFS. Contribute to stateless-minds/go-orbit-db development by creating an account on GitHub.