Added Group object

[RichardLitt]

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[RichardLitt]

Questions

These need to be answered and dealt with before merge:

• I can't figure out how to get object patch to work in curl.
• There are seemingly arbitrary differences in error messages that respond as a string, and those which respond with a JSON object with Message and Code. CF Error Messages: What does Code mean?  ipfs/kubo#2293
• protobuf doesn't work as an encoding sometimes. The usage seems arbitrary and inconsistent.
• xml isn't specified as a possible encoding, and encoding isn't specified as an option in most of the object subcommands, or elsewhere AFAIK.
• I can't always tell what data format Links should return, or if it ever returns some.

[whyrusleeping]

to figure out the exact http request used by the ipfs cli, in one terminal run:

nc -l 6000

and in another run the ipfs command you want, with the flag: --api=/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/6000

i don't think i've ever used the protobuf encoding... odd, but the encoding option is a global one afaik.

Links should return links? should be an array of link objects.

[daviddias]

I can't figure out how to get object patch to work in curl.

0.4.0 doesn't have object patch anymore, now it has:

    ipfs object patch append-data <root> <data>    - Append data to the data segment of a dag node.
    ipfs object patch add-link <root> <name> <ref> - Add a link to a given object.
    ipfs object patch rm-link <root> <link>        - Remove a link from an object.
    ipfs object patch set-data <root> <data>       - Set data field of an ipfs object.

[dignifiedquire]

have the same response as it would be if an invalid argument was supplied.

[RichardLitt]

This is 100% grammatical. :/

[daviddias]

@RichardLitt have you checked #32 (comment) and tried @whyrusleeping suggestion?

[daviddias]

this is 0.3.11 only, in 0.4.0 these args became the name of the commands //cc @dignifiedquire

[RichardLitt]

@diasdavid Working on it. Entire patch command needs to be redone.

[fbaiodias]

@RichardLitt any news on the patch commands? Would be super helpful for ipfs/js-ipfs#58 :)

[RichardLitt]

@xicombd I'll prioritize this. Thanks.

[RichardLitt]

Kept open for reference. Close when #67 and #68 are merged.

[RichardLitt]

Note https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/2520/files

[RichardLitt]

Closing this to stop confusion.