block

[daviddias]

Interact with raw blocks in the datastore. It uses IPFS-repo to store and get blocks

To learn more about the Block API, you can

• check out the go impl https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/tree/master/blocks
• read datastore spec https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/master/repo#datastore

Implementation Roadmap

• ipfs-blocks JavaScript implementation https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-blocks
• jsipfs block get - Get a raw IPFS block.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs block put - Stores input as an IPFS block.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs block del - Deletes a stored block.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli
• jsipfs block stat - Print information of a raw IPFS block.
  • core
  • http-api
  • cli

[daviddias]

need remove in js-ipfs-repo for del

[daviddias]

blocks http-api spec - ipfs-inactive/http-api-spec#25

[RichardLitt]

Let me know if I can help.

[RichardLitt]

Why isn't del in go-ipfs?

[daviddias]

@RichardLitt go-ipfs doesn't expose it (yet). But it is what gc does internally. Exposing it is nice for testing and convenience.