post

POST IPLD Example

This is an example to exercise IPLD.

POST is a datastructure for representing communications. Think of it like "messages on IPFS". It aims to multiplex the various kinds of specific message datastructures (like email, IM, articles, blog posts, etc).

Spec

Object Types

There is one defined object type, and two latent (defined in other specs) object types.

• (defined) a POST
• (latent) an Identity, representing an individual or group (senders or recipients)
• (latent) a Reference, a reference to another document

Object: POST

A POST has several fields:

Examples

Object Examples

See the example.yml document.

Link Examples

Some possilbe ways to traverse this datastructure using IPLD pathing:

• 1. transparent, no link properties access
• 2. transparent, no link properties
• 3. transparent, hope for the best
• 4. different delimiters, strict
• 5. different delimiters, permissive
• 6. .object and .link accessors
• 7. use explicit link/ to resolve through
• 8. different delimiters, strict and explicit link/