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coreapi: add more docs for path
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License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Magiera <magik6k@gmail.com>
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magik6k committed Apr 21, 2018
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24 changes: 21 additions & 3 deletions core/coreapi/interface/path.go
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Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ type Path interface {
// String returns the path as a string.
String() string

// Namespace returns the first component of the path
// Namespace returns the first component of the path.
//
// For example path "/ipfs/QmHash", calling Namespace() will return "ipfs"
Namespace() string

// Mutable returns false if the data pointed to by this path in guaranteed
Expand All @@ -29,13 +31,29 @@ type Path interface {

// ResolvedPath is a resolved Path
type ResolvedPath interface {
// Cid returns the CID referred to by path
// Cid returns the CID of the object referenced by the path.
//
// Example:
// If you have 3 linked objects: QmRoot -> A -> B, and resolve path
// "/ipfs/QmRoot/A/B", the Cid method will return the CID of object B
Cid() *cid.Cid

// Root returns the CID of root path
// Root returns the CID of the root object of the path
//
// Example:
// If you have 3 linked objects: QmRoot -> A -> B, and resolve path
// "/ipfs/QmRoot/A/B", the Root method will return the CID of object QmRoot
Root() *cid.Cid

// Remainder returns unresolved part of the path
//
// Example:
// If you have 2 linked objects: QmRoot -> A, where A is a CBOR node
// containing the following data:
//
// {"foo": {"bar": 42}}
//
// When resolving "/ipld/QmRoot/A/foo/bar", Remainder will return "foo/bar"
Remainder() string

Path
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