Files API File Creation return value?

[matthewrobertbell]

In my opinion, it'd be very useful for the file creation API call to return the multihash of the file that's been created. Why is this not the case?

Cheers

[whyrusleeping]

which api call are you talking about?

[matthewrobertbell]

"ipfs files write --create" equivalent, accessed over the HTTP interface.

[whyrusleeping]

A multihash isnt returned from that call because one isnt generated immediately on that write. You can call ipfs files stat on the path afterwards to get the hash, or use ipfs add <file> to get the hash, then ipfs files cp <hash> <files api path> to put it into place.

[Stebalien]

Closing in favor of #6326 (which calls for a flag instead of doing this by default).