P2P Message Encoding/Decoding

[sambarnes]

Currently all p2p messages in factomd are encoded using go's gob package. Unfortunately it's rather go centric, and attempts to port to python are incomplete. In the link posted, most types are implemented for encoding/decoding, however struct encoding is not implemented.

Right now, hydra just gets forwarded decoded p2p messages from a local factomd node.

Options moving forward:

• Wait for factomd to switch to protocol buffers to be more language agnostic
• Dive into gob struct encoding and implement it manually, forking the pygob package
• Abstract away the p2p code by just making a proxy to Who's p2p package and offload the encoding to a go microservice