Add support for Rabin fingerprinting to js-ipfs

[daviddias]

For feature parity with go-ipfs

ipfs/notes#1

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[timxor]

Still need help on this?

[haraldrudell]

The ECMAScript client is in need of a rewrite: it uses some pre-2015 non-standard streams implementation, closures and dictionaries of functions when today's answer would be async iterators. Not a class in sight

with the go client, one can do
ipfs add --chunker=rabin-48-96-192 LICENSE
added QmaJfZamtgZAPgYfPe5HbjEzbgf3YHgCUCu7yfDadwNXSd LICENSE
1.06 KiB / 1.06 KiB [================================================]
ipfs object links QmaJfZamtgZAPgYfPe5HbjEzbgf3YHgCUCu7yfDadwNXSd
QmYcQE8seMKSqWq2GZfcpnfK3WgPXLqhtryNEfRX6TXqsy 185
QmdH3L1zu7hWu7nrpoCe33zfn3hDm6baYpTSENbRitpcFu 140
Qmaw7roFAKSj3V3QxmFUfpqU3dqAEMPMqHynqXxJmhhGhB 64
Qmewm77gB4V7cgnZLsuikXgrG8Q38M1TX8qPRBcKrw4yJ4 90
QmRd6EoLAyp6TXZmSRTByaAgEn5632J8u9NwFSiHfXurLx 95
QmeLhozoTP1z3RiLRBRUuLJ7xpmDh5oi1ShN91B4UPjRwA 172
QmdxhoXpK74gGbm2G8bAoCiuqDfbq44rN6RZKefCAFEhoZ 99
QmZNEhqU6uVjMc7p7xfqfwQK5YGxe1bdUNdG6Hq81149iw 139
Qmd1yFj2ZuNd28r5MaQaWkr3vcUwPF61i8oBdfRjaUC4V5 64
QmeJhcwipWbjXA5DdXVGe6Sh8kwBzADNnw3Zd3HKcPtPkm 82
Qme1G8Mk1PLThzCr11NzChQVy1FJoHCQkjK7rB2iTWKkaJ 58

[spm32]

Hey @tcsiwula - yes! If you'd still like to take it on let me know.

[mikeal]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/rabin

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[dordille]

Looking for help on this? Took a look at the rabin module linked by @mikeal and was wondering if there is any concern about compatibility with the browserify build of js-ipfs, not too familiar with that process and whether modules that have c dependencies are included elsewhere.