marcin212/java-ipfs-api

A Java implementation of the HTTP IPFS API

java-ipfs-api

A Java implementation of the IPFS http api

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Building
• Contribute
• License

Install

Simply clone this repo.

Usage

Include the IPFS.jar in your project.

Create an IPFS instance with:

IPFS ipfs = new IPFS("/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001");

Then run commands like:

ipfs.refs.local();

To add a file use:

NamedStreamable.FileWrapper file = new NamedStreamable.FileWrapper(new File("hello.txt"));
MerkleNode addResult = ipfs.add(file);

To add a byte[] use:

NamedStreamable.ByteArrayWrapper file = new NamedStreamable.ByteArrayWrapper("hello.txt", "G'day world! IPFS rocks!".getBytes());
MerkleNode addResult = ipfs.add(file);

To get a file use:

Multihash filePointer = Multihash.fromBase58("QmPZ9gcCEpqKTo6aq61g2nXGUhM4iCL3ewB6LDXZCtioEB");
byte[] fileContents = ipfs.cat(filePointer);

Building

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To build just run make. There are no dependencies, just include the resulting IPFS.jar in your project.

To run tests use make tests.

Contribute

Feel free to join in. All welcome. Open an issue!

This repository falls under the IPFS Code of Conduct.

License

MIT