Polls are now live!

Since my last update, I've been working on getting polls to a stable production release. I'm glad to say that Polls are now live!.

Pull request: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/pull/8

What does this mean?

Hive frontends like hive.blog, PeakD, 3Speak and Ecency can now start working on integrating polls for their users. Even a separate frontend for polls alone can leverage this feature.

Integrating polls on Hive frontends

For a frontend to successfully integrate polls on Hive Plug & Play, two aspects need to be developed.

1) custom_json operations:

create operation to allow a user to create polls: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/protocols/polls.md#create
vote operation to allow a user to vote on an individual poll's answers: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/protocols/polls.md#vote

2) API endpoints:

Documentation: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/api/plugs/polls.md
Postman: https://www.postman.com/imwatsi/workspace/hive-plug-play

get_poll_permlink: get a valid and unique permlink to use with a new poll
get_polls_active: get a list of active polls, within a specific tag if specified
get_poll_votes: get votes for a specified poll

Why the delay?

In my last update, I estimated polls to be done in about a week. It took longer than expected because I upgraded the HAF code to use the latest release, which then necessitated upgrades to both development and production servers to accommodate the new disk space requirements. So I had to setup both servers again from scratch.

A few bugs were also discovered in the core HAF code that caused the node to encounter errors when hived was restarted. See https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/haf/-/issues/20.

This delayed the completion of polls because restarts are common during development and testing. So every time the node restarted, a blockchain replay was needed. The Blocktrades team is working on a solution and it should be resolved soon.

Production Server: https://plug-play.imwatsi.com

Dev Server: https://plug-play-beta.imwatsi.com (unstable, may not be available at times)