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go-cid

A package to handle content IDs in Go.

This is an implementation in Go of the CID spec. It is used in go-ipfs and related packages to refer to a typed hunk of data.

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Eric Myhre

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Install

go-cid is a standard Go module which can be installed with:

go get github.com/ipfs/go-cid

Usage

Running tests

Run tests with go test from the directory root

go test

Examples

Parsing string input from users

// Create a cid from a marshaled string
c, err := cid.Decode("bafzbeigai3eoy2ccc7ybwjfz5r3rdxqrinwi4rwytly24tdbh6yk7zslrm")
if err != nil {...}

fmt.Println("Got CID: ", c)

Creating a CID from scratch

import (
  cid "github.com/ipfs/go-cid"
  mc "github.com/multiformats/go-multicodec"
  mh "github.com/multiformats/go-multihash"
)

// Create a cid manually by specifying the 'prefix' parameters
pref := cid.Prefix{
	Version: 1,
	Codec: uint64(mc.Raw),
	MhType: mh.SHA2_256,
	MhLength: -1, // default length
}

// And then feed it some data
c, err := pref.Sum([]byte("Hello World!"))
if err != nil {...}

fmt.Println("Created CID: ", c)

Check if two CIDs match

// To test if two cid's are equivalent, be sure to use the 'Equals' method:
if c1.Equals(c2) {
	fmt.Println("These two refer to the same exact data!")
}

Check if some data matches a given CID

// To check if some data matches a given cid, 
// Get your CIDs prefix, and use that to sum the data in question:
other, err := c.Prefix().Sum(mydata)
if err != nil {...}

if !c.Equals(other) {
	fmt.Println("This data is different.")
}