Weather skills
The AEA weather skills demonstrate an interaction between two AEAs.
- The provider of weather data (the
weather_station
). - The buyer of weather data (the
weather_client
).
Discussion
The scope of the specific demo is to demonstrate how to create a simple AEA with the usage of the AEA framework and a database. The weather_station
AEA
will read data from the database, that is populated with readings from a weather station, based on the requested dates and will deliver the data to the client upon payment.
This demo does not utilize a smart contract. As a result, we interact with a ledger only to complete a transaction.
You can use this AEA as an example of how to read data from a database and advertise these to possible clients.
Communication
This diagram shows the communication between the various entities as data is successfully sold by the weather station AEA to the client.
Preparation instructions
Dependencies
Follow the Preliminaries and Installation sections from the AEA quick start.
Demo instructions:
A demo to run the same scenario but with a true ledger transaction on Fetch.ai testnet
or Ethereum ropsten
network. This demo assumes the buyer
trusts the seller AEA to send the data upon successful payment.
Create the weather station
First, fetch the AEA that will provide weather measurements:
aea fetch fetchai/weather_station:0.20.0 --alias my_weather_station
cd my_weather_station
aea install
aea build
Alternatively, create from scratch.
The following steps create the weather station from scratch:
aea create my_weather_station
cd my_weather_station
aea add connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.14.0
aea add connection fetchai/soef:0.15.0
aea add connection fetchai/ledger:0.12.0
aea add skill fetchai/weather_station:0.18.0
aea install
aea build
aea config set agent.default_connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.14.0
aea config set --type dict agent.default_routing \
'{
"fetchai/ledger_api:0.9.0": "fetchai/ledger:0.12.0",
"fetchai/oef_search:0.12.0": "fetchai/soef:0.15.0"
}'
Create the weather client
In another terminal, fetch the AEA that will query the weather station:
aea fetch fetchai/weather_client:0.21.0 --alias my_weather_client
cd my_weather_client
aea install
aea build
Alternatively, create from scratch.
The following steps create the weather client from scratch:
aea create my_weather_client
cd my_weather_client
aea add connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.14.0
aea add connection fetchai/soef:0.15.0
aea add connection fetchai/ledger:0.12.0
aea add skill fetchai/weather_client:0.18.0
aea install
aea build
aea config set agent.default_connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.14.0
aea config set --type dict agent.default_routing \
'{
"fetchai/ledger_api:0.9.0": "fetchai/ledger:0.12.0",
"fetchai/oef_search:0.12.0": "fetchai/soef:0.15.0"
}'
Add keys for the weather station AEA
First, create the private key for the weather station AEA based on the network you want to transact. To generate and add a private-public key pair for Fetch.ai AgentLand
use:
aea generate-key fetchai
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_private_key.txt
Next, create a private key used to secure the AEA's communications:
aea generate-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt --connection
Finally, certify the key for use by the connections that request that:
aea issue-certificates
Add keys and generate wealth for the weather client AEA
The weather client needs to have some wealth to purchase the service from the weather station.
First, create the private key for the weather client AEA based on the network you want to transact. To generate and add a private-public key pair for Fetch.ai AgentLand
use:
aea generate-key fetchai
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_private_key.txt
Then, create some wealth for your weather client based on the network you want to transact with. On the Fetch.ai AgentLand
network:
aea generate-wealth fetchai
Next, create a private key used to secure the AEA's communications:
aea generate-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt --connection
Finally, certify the key for use by the connections that request that:
aea issue-certificates
Run the AEAs
Run both AEAs from their respective terminals.
First, run the weather station AEA:
aea run
Once you see a message of the form To join its network use multiaddr 'SOME_ADDRESS'
take note of the address. (Alternatively, use aea get-multiaddress fetchai -c -i fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.14.0 -u public_uri
to retrieve the address.) This is the entry peer address for the local agent communication network created by the weather station.
Then, in the weather client, run this command (replace SOME_ADDRESS
with the correct value as described above):
aea config set --type dict vendor.fetchai.connections.p2p_libp2p.config \
'{
"delegate_uri": "127.0.0.1:11001",
"entry_peers": ["SOME_ADDRESS"],
"local_uri": "127.0.0.1:9001",
"log_file": "libp2p_node.log",
"public_uri": "127.0.0.1:9001"
}'
Then run the weather client AEA:
aea run
You will see that the AEAs negotiate and then transact using the selected ledger.
Delete the AEAs
When you're done, go up a level and delete the AEAs.
cd ..
aea delete my_weather_station
aea delete my_weather_client