A test suite and interface you can use to implement an IPFS core interface.
- Background
- Core API
- Modules that implement the interface
- Badge
- Install
- Usage
- Running tests
- Skipping tests
- Contribute
- License
The primary goal of this module is to define and ensure that IPFS core implementations and their respective HTTP client libraries offer the same interface, so that developers can quickly change between a local and a remote node without having to change their applications.
It offers a suite of tests that can be run in order to check if the interface is implemented as described.
In order to be considered "valid", an IPFS implementation must expose the Core API as described in /docs/core-api. You can also use this loose spec as documentation for consuming the core APIs.
- JavaScript IPFS implementation
- JavaScript IPFS HTTP Client Library
- JavaScript IPFS postMessage proxy
Send in a PR if you find or write one!
Include this badge in your readme if you make a new module that implements interface-ipfs-core API.
[](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/packages/interface-ipfs-core)In JavaScript land:
$ npm install interface-ipfs-coreIf you want to run these tests against a go-ipfs daemon, checkout ipfs-http-client and run test tests:
$ git clone https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-http-client
$ npm install
$ npm testInstall interface-ipfs-core as one of the dependencies of your project and as a test file. Then, using mocha (for Node.js) or a test runner with compatible API, do:
const tests = require('interface-ipfs-core')
const nodes = []
// Create common setup and teardown
const createCommon = () => ({
// Do some setup common to all tests
setup: async () => {
// Use ipfsd-ctl or other to spawn an IPFS node for testing
const node = await spawnNode()
nodes.push(node)
return node.api
},
// Dispose of nodes created by the IPFS factory and any other teardown
teardown: () => {
return Promise.all(nodes.map(n => n.stop()))
}
})
tests.block(createCommon)
tests.config(createCommon)
tests.dag(createCommon)
// ...etc. (see src/index.js)// run all the tests for the repo subsystem
tests.repo(createCommon)tests.repo.version(createCommon)tests.repo.gc(createCommon, { only: true }) // pass an options object to run only these tests
// OR, at the subsystem level
// runs only ALL the repo.gc tests
tests.repo(createCommon, { only: ['gc'] })
// runs only ALL the object.patch.addLink tests
tests.object(createCommon, { only: ['patch.addLink'] })tests.repo.gc(createCommon, { only: ['should do a thing'] }) // only run these named test(s)
// OR, at the subsystem level
tests.repo(createCommon, { only: ['should do a thing'] })tests.repo.gc(createCommon, { skip: true }) // pass an options object to skip these tests
// skips ALL the repo.gc tests
tests.repo(createCommon, { skip: ['gc'] })
// skips ALL the object.patch.addLink tests
tests.object(createCommon, { skip: ['patch.addLink'] })tests.repo.gc(createCommon, { skip: ['should do a thing'] }) // named test(s) to skip
// OR, at the subsystem level
tests.repo(createCommon, { skip: ['should do a thing'] })
// Optionally specify a reason
tests.repo(createCommon, {
skip: [{
name: 'should do a thing',
reason: 'Thing is not implemented yet'
}]
})Feel free to join in. All welcome. Open an issue!
This repository falls under the IPFS Code of Conduct.
Copyright (c) Protocol Labs, Inc. under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.