Moving to protobuf instead, perhaps

Author: rschulman

Cargo.toml

@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ authors = ["Ross Schulman <ross@rbs.io>"]
 
 [dependencies]
 hyper = "*"
-serde = "0.4.3"
+
+[dependencies.protobuf]
+git = "https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf.git"

src/lib.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 extern crate hyper;
-extern crate serde;
+extern crate protobuf;
+
+mod merkledag;
 
 use std::io::Read;
 
 use hyper::Client;
 use hyper::header::Connection;
-use serde::json::{self, Value};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum IPFSError {

src/merkledag.proto

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package merkledag.pb;
+
+
+// An IPFS MerkleDAG Link
+message PBLink {
+
+  // multihash of the target object
+  optional bytes Hash = 1;
+
+  // utf string name. should be unique per object
+  optional string Name = 2;
+
+  // cumulative size of target object
+  optional uint64 Tsize = 3;
+}
+
+// An IPFS MerkleDAG Node
+message PBNode {
+
+  // refs to other objects
+  repeated PBLink Links = 2;
+
+  // opaque user data
+  optional bytes Data = 1;
+}