where can we access / check the APIs for filecoin that the nodejs client is calling ?

[xiedapao]

I was checking out this repo : https://github.com/filecoin-project/js-filecoin-api-client

I have some questions if this is not off-topic:

• where can we access / check the APIs for filecoin that the nodejs client is calling ?
• Will this project be supported by the official filecoin team ?

[xiedapao]

@xiedapao Hey @Jad Termsani the api is defined wrt the commands here: https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-filecoin/blob/master/commands/main.go#L155

The exact correspondence between CLI arguments, flags, options to http requests is unfortunately not documented in a nice form (i.e. like this: https://docs.ipfs.io/reference/api/http/) anywhere I know of.

If someone were documenting the http api the straightforward tedious path would be to look at how CLI arguments are parsed: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-cmds/blob/master/cli/parse.go and how http requests are serialized: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-cmds/blob/master/http/client.go#L150

[xiedapao]

@xiedapao This project has come from a protocol labs employee (Alan) who works full time on js-ipfs but essentially volunteered to make this happen.

The safest thing to do, at least in the near term, is think about this as an independent OS project because this work is very loosely associated with day-to-day filecoin project planning. In the long term one of our goals is to support the ecosystem around the core protocol, but we're not there yet as a team.