akashaorg/ipfs-connector

AKASHA <---> IPFS connector

ipfs-connector's Issues

Download progress feedback

It would be nice to have access to the download progression for user feedback (download slow or stalled ...).

I looked at this a while ago without finding an obvious way, but maybe with a fork of bin-wrapper it would be doable (maybe https://github.com/simonepri/bin-manager ?).

Update package

• ipfs-api changed to ipfs-http-client
• ipfs-connector-utils v2.0
• update travis config

Failed to import form Ionic 2 project

Seems due to the usage of relative path?
Or it just doesn't support 'client/browser' ?

import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';
import {Http} from '@angular/http';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import {IpfsConnector} from "@akashaproject/ipfs-connector";

/*
 Generated class for the Data provider.

 See https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/dependency-injection.html
 for more info on providers and Angular 2 DI.
 */
@Injectable()
export class Data {
  ipfsConnector: IpfsConnector;

  constructor(public http: Http) {
    console.log('Hello Data Provider');
    this.ipfsConnector = IpfsConnector.getInstance();
    console.log(this.ipfsConnector);
  }
}

conditional dependencies ?

The last version of ipfs-connector has js-ipfs as a dependency, even if I would like to use only go-ipfs. A nice thing would be to be able to choose the ipfs implementation.

On a side note, this is currently a problem for me because of a error in one of the dependencies that ultimately pull react (!) and break my app. I filed an issue there: https://github.com/ipld/js-ipld-eth-storage-trie/issues/3

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api.apiClient port doesn't get updated after a staticSetPorts()

js-ipfs-api is initialized with the first call to IpfsConnector.api() but need to get overwritten after the call to staticSetPorts(). I'm not sure what code path is used, but I end up with js-ipfs-api doing call to the default port 5001 instead of the one I set up.

For reference, this is what I use to start the daemon:

  const instance = IpfsConnector.getInstance()

  const userDataPath = app.getPath('userData')

  // set the download path for ipfs
  instance.setBinPath(userDataPath)

  // set the repo path
  instance.setIpfsFolder(path.join(userDataPath,'ipfs-repo'))

  // enable some experimental features
  instance.setOption('args', [
    'daemon',
    '--enable-pubsub-experiment'
  ])

  ports = {
    api: await getPort(4280),
    gateway: await getPort(4281),
    swarm: await getPort(4282)
  }

  await instance.staticSetPorts(ports)

  // start ipfs daemon and download binaries if needed
  instance.start()

Images not showing properly

My recent Post's Images are not showing Properly.just showing as "Loading Image".
someone said my images are too heavy but its only 500~700kb.
i tried with 72kb image but still not working.

this is my post.
https://beta.akasha.world/#/0x9548169acd9cec9121d4fa4a8460d8797ee348f7/0xaf264c9572587a335c250f6267229597ee3188f5a84ecab1f02a9b59201866e8

IPFS binary doesn't get updated

After updating ipfs-connector to the latest version I expected it to download a newer version of IPFS since the expected version is different in the new version (0.4.9 instead of 0.4.7).

But that's not the case, IPFS 0.4.7 still get launched.

I guess you use something like this for akasha ?

const onServiceStarted = async () => {
  const instance = IpfsConnector.getInstance()
  const versionOK = await instance.checkVersion()

  if(!versionOK) {
    console.log("Need to update IPFS")
    await instance.stop()
    await instance.downloadManager.deleteBin()
    instance.start()
    return
  }
....
}

Would it be better to have ipfs-connector deal with this ? It will break with a wrong version for the daemon anyway since you expect a specific API.

go-ipfs v0.4.14-rc1

Hello,

Could you make a release with the new go-ipfs v0.4.14-rc1 ?

Thank you !

Misleading example

The example in the readme say that:

// start ipfs daemon and download binaries if needed
instance.start().then(...);

The .then(...) part led me to think that IPFS was ready at that point. Actually the promise resolve as soon as the binary is spawned, so the API is not ready at this point and will throw an error.

What you need to do is to install some listener like this:

instance.on(ipfsEvents.SERVICE_STARTED, onServiceStarted)

Maybe the start() promise should resolve once the API is available ?

Request: Collaborating with Hydrus

Hydrus is a client that allows for downloading of images from popular imageboards,
it also allows people to upload their tagged media database directly to IPFS.
Currently IPFS, and by extension Hydrus has no systems against leeching.
However, Ethereum does have such a system (Zero Knowledge Proofs).
It would be great if Hydrus and Akasha can collaborate on a common goal,
to fight against censorship, to protect public access of information and art.
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

Offline port configuration for IPFS daemon

Currently, IPFS need to be started to change the port configuration but that cause problem when one of the port are already in use.

IPFS allow to change the port through the ipfs binary, when the daemon is not running:

// Change the api port config
ipfs config Addresses.API /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5003

// Disable the gateway
ipfs config Addresses.Gateway ''

This could even be made config-less by using something like https://github.com/daaku/nodejs-freeport to find a free port.

TypeError: IpfsConnector.getInstance is not a function

I want to use IPFS inside my electron application. I tried the sample code snippet, but the execution is failing. Am I missing something here?

Output:

error in transpile

Hi,

i try to use your project but i have a issue when use tsc command to transpile my project.

tsc --version 
version 1.8.10

when try transpile my project a i have ths error

node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(2,1): error TS1084: Invalid 'reference' directive syntax.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(3,1): error TS1084: Invalid 'reference' directive syntax.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(10,21): error TS1005: '=' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(10,32): error TS1005: ';' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(11,21): error TS1005: '=' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(11,31): error TS1005: ';' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(12,21): error TS1005: '=' expected.
/node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(12,33): error TS1005: ';' expected.
/node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(13,21): error TS1005: '=' expected.
/node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsApiHelper.d.ts(13,31): error TS1005: ';' expected.
/node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsBin.d.ts(2,1): error TS1084: Invalid 'reference' directive syntax.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsConnector.d.ts(2,1): error TS1084: Invalid 'reference' directive syntax.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsConnector.d.ts(3,1): error TS1084: Invalid 'reference' directive syntax.
/node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsConnector.d.ts(31,14): error TS1005: '=' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/src/IpfsConnector.d.ts(31,17): error TS1005: ';' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/typings/main.d.ts(1,29): error TS1005: '{' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/typings/main.d.ts(2,26): error TS1005: '{' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/typings/main.d.ts(3,22): error TS1005: '{' expected.
node_modules/@akashaproject/ipfs-connector/typings/main.d.ts(4,25): error TS1005: '{' expected.

thx in advance for your help.
your idea is very interesting and i hope solve my needs.