Commit 5abaad9e authored by Łukasz Magiera's avatar Łukasz Magiera

coreapi: add more docs for path

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: default avatarŁukasz Magiera <magik6k@gmail.com>
parent a6d0272a
...@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ type Path interface { ...@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ type Path interface {
// String returns the path as a string. // String returns the path as a string.
String() 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 Namespace() string
// Mutable returns false if the data pointed to by this path in guaranteed // Mutable returns false if the data pointed to by this path in guaranteed
...@@ -29,13 +31,29 @@ type Path interface { ...@@ -29,13 +31,29 @@ type Path interface {
// ResolvedPath is a resolved Path // ResolvedPath is a resolved Path
type ResolvedPath interface { 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 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 Root() *cid.Cid
// Remainder returns unresolved part of the path // 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 Remainder() string
Path Path
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