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Helia API - the interface implemented by helia, @helia/http and maybe others one day. It exposes a .libp2p property.
helia an implementation of the API that uses libp2p
@helia/http an implementation of the API that (in theory) only uses HTTP gateways
This is in reaction to #372 where we have an implementation of the Helia API (so it's compatible with @helia/unixfs, @helia/dag-cbor, etc) that doesn't use libp2p and does everything over HTTP.
Modules like @helia/ipns use the ContentRouting and PeerRouting interfaces from libp2p via the Helia API to do things like look up records or find providers for content.
If the Helia API exposed the Content/Peer routing APIs then helia could call through to libp2p and @helia/http could call implementations like @helia/delegated-routing-v1-http-api-client. Block brokers could use this to find HTTP block/car providers in the routing.
We could probably remove libp2p from the Helia API then - helia would be free to add it back in to expose it for anyone who wants to drop down to a lower level.
cc @ipfs/helia-dev
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Small glossary:
helia
,@helia/http
and maybe others one day. It exposes a.libp2p
property.This is in reaction to #372 where we have an implementation of the Helia API (so it's compatible with
@helia/unixfs
,@helia/dag-cbor
, etc) that doesn't use libp2p and does everything over HTTP.Modules like
@helia/ipns
use the ContentRouting and PeerRouting interfaces from libp2p via the Helia API to do things like look up records or find providers for content.We have modules like @helia/delegated-routing-v1-http-api-client which implement one or both routing interfaces but only over HTTP.
If the Helia API exposed the Content/Peer routing APIs then
helia
could call through to libp2p and@helia/http
could call implementations like@helia/delegated-routing-v1-http-api-client
. Block brokers could use this to find HTTP block/car providers in the routing.We could probably remove libp2p from the Helia API then -
helia
would be free to add it back in to expose it for anyone who wants to drop down to a lower level.cc @ipfs/helia-dev
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: