WhyPFS Core

A lightweight importable library to run a WhyPFS node.

Easiest way to setup an WhyPFS / Estuary core node that peers with any nodes within the IPFS network. This core library decouples the node initialization setup based on the Why's https://github.com/whyrusleeping/whypfs

Features

• Significantly improved default Bitswap parameters
• Default usage of the accelerated DHT client
• Default flatfs parameters work well at large scales on good filesystems (ext4, xfs, probably others)

Setup a new WhyPFS node

Using the default will give the most optimal configuration based on whyPFS. It'll also use the default boostrap nodes.

go get github.com/application-research/whypfs-core

Setup a node

peer, err := NewNode(NewNodeParams{Ctx: context.Background()})	
if err != nil {
    t.Fatal(err)
}

Set up a node with your own config

// initialize a node parameter
params := NewNodeParams{
    Ctx:       context.Background(),
    Datastore: NewInMemoryDatastore(),
}

// create a new config of your own
newConfig := &Config{
    Offline:           true,
    ReprovideInterval: 0,
    Libp2pKeyFile:     "mykey",
    ListenAddrs:       []string{"/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/0"},
    AnnounceAddrs:     nil,
    DatastoreDir: struct {
        Directory string
        Options   leveldb.Options
    }{},
    Blockstore:              "",
    NoBlockstoreCache:       false,
    NoAnnounceContent:       false,
    NoLimiter:               false,
    BitswapConfig:           BitswapConfig{},
    ConnectionManagerConfig: ConnectionManager{},
}

// set it
params.Config = params.ConfigurationBuilder(newConfig)
myNode, err := NewNode(params)
if err1 != nil {
    t.Fatal(err)
}

Add/Pin and Get a file

node, err := peer.AddPinFile(context.Background(), bytes.NewReader([]byte("letsrebuildtolearnnewthings!")), nil)
content, err := peer.GetFile(context.Background(), node.Cid())

Add/Pin Directory and Get the ipld.Node of the directory

node, err := peer.AddPinDirectory(context.Background(), "./test/test_directory")
mainDirNode, err := peer.GetDirectory(context.Background(), node)

Provides

• An ipld.DAGService.
• AddPinFile method to add a file to a node
• AddPinDirectory function to add a directory to a node
• GetFile function to get a file using a CID
• GetDirectory function to retrieve an entire directory from a ipld.Node
• Custom bootstrap nodes

Examples

There are a few examples on how to utilize the node which includes

• how to create a running peer node.
• how to create a CAR file and add it to the peer node
• how to add a file / dir to the peer node.