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Overview

Velt supports self-hosting your comments and related data:

• Comments can be stored on your own infrastructure, with only necessary identifiers on Velt servers.
• Velt Components automatically hydrate comment data in the frontend by fetching from your configured data provider.
• This gives you full control over comment data while maintaining all Velt collaboration features.
• This automatically also ensures that the in-app notifications content is not stored on Velt servers. The content is generated using the comments data in the frontend.

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How does it work?

• When comments are created, updated, deleted or requested, the SDK uses your configured CommentAnnotationDataProvider to handle storage and retrieval
• The data provider implements get, save, and delete methods to interact with your database
• Velt handles the data mapping and realtime synchronization while delegating persistence of actual content to your infrastructure
• The data provider works at the Comment Annotation (Thread) level not at the individual Comment (Message) level.
• For write requests (save, delete), the operation is first performed on your database and only if we get a success response, the SDK will perform the operation on the Velt server.
• You can configure retries, timeouts, etc. for the data provider.

Here are the methods that you need to implement on the data provider:

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get

Method to fetch comments from your database. On error we will retry.

• Param: GetCommentRequest
• Return: Promise<ResolverResponse<Record<string, PartialCommentAnnotation>>>

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save

Save comments to your database. Return a success or error response. On error we will retry.

• Param: SaveCommentRequest
  • Note in the SaveCommentRequest object, you will receive the event name that triggered the save.
• Return: Promise<ResolverResponse<T>>

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delete

Delete comments from your database. Return a success or error response. On error we will retry.

• Param: DeleteCommentRequest
• Return: Promise<ResolverResponse<T>>

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config

Configuration for the comment data provider.

• Type: ResolverConfig

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Example Implementation

const fetchCommentsFromDB = async (request: GetCommentRequest) => {
    // Fetch comment annotations from your DB
    const result = await __getCommentsFromYourDB__(request)
      .then((response) => {
        return { data: response, success: true, statusCode: 200 };
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        return { success: false, statusCode: 500 };
      });

    return result;
};

const saveCommentsToDB = async (request: SaveCommentRequest) => {
    const result = await __saveCommentsToYourDB__(request)
      .then((response) => {
        return { success: true, statusCode: 200 };
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        return { success: false, statusCode: 500 };
    });
    return result;
};

const deleteCommentsFromDB = async (request: DeleteCommentRequest) => {
    const result = await __deleteCommentsFromYourDB__(request)
      .then((response) => {
        return { success: true, statusCode: 200 };
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        return { success: false, statusCode: 500 };
    });
    return result;
};

const commentResolverConfig: ResolverConfig = {
    resolveTimeout: 2000,
    saveRetryConfig: {
        retryCount: 3,
        retryDelay: 2000
    },
    deleteRetryConfig: {
        retryCount: 3,
        retryDelay: 2000
    }
};


const commentAnnotationDataProvider: CommentAnnotationDataProvider = {
    get: fetchCommentsFromDB,
    save: saveCommentsToDB,
    delete: deleteCommentsFromDB,
    config: commentResolverConfig
};

<VeltProvider 
    apiKey='YOUR_API_KEY'
    dataProviders={{
        comment: commentAnnotationDataProvider
    }}
>
</VeltProvider>