MonoTorrent

h1. Managing Torrents

[[Managing Torrents#Starting a download|Example 1]] shows how to add a torrent to the engine and start the download

h2. Example 1

<pre><code class="java">

    class MainClass

    {

        ClientEngine engine;

        string savePath;

        // savePath is the directory where downloads will be stored

        public MainClass(string savePath)

        {

            // Create a basic ClientEngine without changing any settings

            this.engine = new ClientEngine(new EngineSettings());

            this.savePath = savePath;

        }

        public void DownloadTorrent(string path)

        {

            // Open the .torrent file

            Torrent torrent = Torrent.Load(path);

            // Create the manager which will download the torrent to savePath

            // using the default settings.

            TorrentManager manager = new TorrentManager(torrent, savePath, new TorrentSettings());

            // Register the manager with the engine

            engine.Register(manager);

            // Begin the download

            manager.Start();

        }

    }

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h2. Advanced Client

<pre><code class="java">

ClientEngine engine = new ClientEngine(new EngineSettings(downloadsPath, port));

//DHT

DhtListener dhtListner = new UdpListener (new IPEndPoint (IPAddress.Any, port));

DhtEngine dht = new DhtEngine (dhtListner);

engine.RegisterDht(dht);

dhtListner.Start();

//byte array of dht nodes can be null if you have never connect to DHT before today!

engine.DhtEngine.Start(nodes);

torrent = Torrent.Load("test.torrent");

TorrentManager manager = new TorrentManager(torrent, downloadsPath, torrentDefaults);

//FastResume code need a BencodedDictionnary

//If you jsut start the torrent, you have no fast resume

// but if you have download a part of the torrent you can save fast resume data 

//(manager.SaveFastResume()) and restore it later to do a quicker load

manager.LoadFastResume(new FastResume (BEncDictFastResume));

engine.Register(manager);

manager.Start ();

</code>

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