IPFS Storage Engine

We are implementing the Put() and Get() API methods on top of IPFS.

ipfs.go: storage provider implementation

cmd/main.go: interacting with IPFS storage provider. This requires the IPFS daemon to be running.

Installation

1. Install IPFS daemon:
   • Download ipfs binary
2. Initialize IPFS
   • Execute ipfs init (only needs to be done once)
   • Add the core wave3 peers to your network
3. Run IPFS daemon
   • Execute ipfs daemon --enable-pubsub-experiment
4. Install WAVE storage provider:
   • TODO

Usage

Supernode

Supernodes are servers that have voluntarily taken on the role of storing WAVE objects from IPFS clients.

1. Clone and follow instructions for ansible
   • IPFS WAVE IPFS supernode setup

Put/Get

We have a simple command line interface for now

1. cmd put <file path> returns hash
2. cmd put <hash> prints the contents of the file on the screen

Adding Supernodes

Put the bootstrap peers in a file bootstrappeers and run

while read addr; do
    ipfs bootstrap add $addr
    ipfs swarm connect $addr
done < bootstrappeers

/ip4/54.183.252.14/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmWaDiSZhFn9JYjtUMp2wXP7j6yjaVrxdjSZKfGjaYzTjM