I am experimenting with indexing contents of a directory into PouchDB for easier browsing of large deep trees.
I want to be able to handle symlinks. I’m able to get the raw data using ipfs.block.get. The type returned from ipfs.ls is unknown. Are there things other than symlinks with a type of unknown? If so, do other unknowns than symlinks have a first byte of 10?
Here is the start I have on reading the directory structure:
const listDir = async (key, path = []) => {
const list = await ipfs.ls(key)
list.forEach(async (entry) => {
const name = `${path.join('/')}/${entry.name}`
switch(entry.type) {
case 'dir':
console.log(`Dir: "${name}": Recursing`)
listDir(`${key}/${entry.name}`, [...path, entry.name])
break
case 'file':
console.log(`File: "${name}": ${entry.hash}`)
break
default:
const block = await ipfs.block.get(entry.hash)
if(block.data[0] === 10) {
console.log(`Link: "${name}": ${block.data.slice(6)}`)
} else {
console.log(`Unknown: "${name}": ${block.data}`)
}
break
}
})
}