MonoTorrent

h1. Creating Torrents

[[Creating Torrents#Example-1|Example 1]] shows how to create a simple torrent.

[[Creating Torrents#Example-2|Example 2]] shows how to create a torrent asynchronously so that it does not block the main thread in your application.

[[Creating Torrents#Example-3|Example 3]] shows how to abort the creation of a torrent after it has started

h2. Example 1

<pre><code class="java">

        // 'path' is the location of the file/folder which is going to be converted

        // to a torrent. 'savePath' is where the .torrent file will be saved.

        void CreateTorrent(string path, string savePath)

        {

            // The class used for creating the torrent

            TorrentCreator c = new TorrentCreator();

            // Add one tier which contains two trackers

            List<string> tier = new List<string>();

            tier.Add("http://www.example.com/announce");

            tier.Add("http://backup.example.com/announce");

            c.Announces.Add(tier);

            c.Comment = "This is the comment";

            c.CreatedBy = "Alan using " + VersionInfo.ClientVersion;

            c.Publisher = "www.homepage.com";

            // Set the torrent as private so it will not use DHT or peer exchange

            // Generally you will not want to set this.

            c.Private = true;

            // Path can be either a directory *or* a file.

            c.Path = path;

            // Every time a piece has been hashed, this event will fire. It is an

            // asynchronous event, so you have to handle threading yourself.

            c.Hashed += delegate (object o, TorrentCreatorEventArgs e) {

                Console.WriteLine("Current File is {0}% hashed", e.FileCompletion);

                Console.WriteLine("Overall {0}% hashed", e.OverallCompletion);

                Console.WriteLine("Total data to hash: {0}", e.OverallSize);

            };

            // Create the torrent file and save it directly to the specified path

            // Different overloads of 'Create' can be used to save the data to a Stream

            // or just return it as a BEncodedDictionary (its native format) so it can be

            // processed in memory

            c.Create(save_path);

        }

</code></pre>

h2. Example 2

<pre><code class="java">

        // 'path' is the location of the file/folder which is going to be converted

        // to a torrent. 'savePath' is where the .torrent file will be saved.

        void CreateTorrent(string path, string savePath)

        {

            // The class used for creating the torrent

            TorrentCreator c = new TorrentCreator();

            // Fill in the path, trackers as in Example 1

            FillInStandardInformation(c);

            // Create the torrent asynchronously

            c.BeginCreate(c, TorrentCreated);

        }

        void TorrentCreated(IAsyncResult result)

        {

            TorrentCreator c = (TorrentCreator)result.AsyncState;

            // If any errors occured while creating the torrent, they

            // will be rethrown here.

            try

            {   

                // Open the destination file and use the EndCreate overload which

                // writes the data directly to the Stream. 

                using (FileStream stream = File.OpenWrite(savePath))

                    c.EndCreate(result, stream);

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Error creating torrent: {0}", ex);

            }

        }

</code></pre>

h2. Example 3

<pre><code class="java">

        // 'path' is the location of the file/folder which is going to be converted

        // to a torrent. 'savePath' is where the .torrent file will be saved.

        void CreateTorrent(string path, string savePath)

        {

            // The class used for creating the torrent

            TorrentCreator c = new TorrentCreator();

            // Fill in the path, trackers as in Example 1

            FillInStandardInformation(c);

            // Create the torrent asynchronously and keep a reference to the

            // IAsyncResult it returns

            TorrentCreatorAsyncResult result = c.BeginCreate(c, TorrentCreated);

            // Abort creation of the torrent (can be called at any stage). Note, you

            // can only abort the creation if the torrent is created asynchronously

            result.Abort();

        }

</code></pre>