object

[daviddias]

The object API enables IPFS users to create graph structures with IPFS were links are MerkleLinks (multihashes)

To learn more about the object API, you can

• check go implementation of the MerkleDAG https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/tree/master/merkledag
• check the MerkleDAG spec https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/master/merkledag
• see the http-api spec for the object API Added Group object ipfs-inactive/http-api-spec#32

Implementation Roadmap

• MerkleDAG JS implementation https://github.com/vijayee/js-ipfs-merkle-dag
• jsipfs object new [template] - Creates a new object from an ipfs template.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object get - Get and serialize the DAG node named by .
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object put - Stores input as a DAG object, outputs its key.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object stat - Get stats for the DAG node named by .
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object data - Outputs the raw bytes in an IPFS object.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object links - Outputs the links pointed to by the specified object.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object patch append-data - Append data to the data segment of a dag node.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object patch add-link - Add a link to a given object.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object patch rm-link - Remove a link from an object.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs object patch set-data - Set data field of an ipfs object.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli

[daviddias]

updated this issue

[fbaiodias]

Started working on this on feature/object branch :)