Add web API

[dvc94ch]

We don't have to reimplement a cli since https://github.com/ferristseng/rust-ipfs-api looks nice.

[adamski]

Are you suggesting using that library to talk to a local node instead of a remote one?

[dvc94ch]

It's how the go and js cli interfaces work. You start the daemon and communicate through the http api. The cli talking to the api is already implemented, we just need to implement the other end.

[adamski]

Ok, so probably using https://hyper.rs? I see that is also used in rust-ipfs-api

[adamski]

For reference, this looks like the spec that needs implementing: https://ipfs.docs.apiary.io

[gnunicorn]

Ok, so probably using https://hyper.rs? I see that is also used in rust-ipfs-api

Or actix-web. They also have actix-web-support. I personally would prefer us using actix-web-server-side, too.

[dvc94ch]

Or tower-rs. But I don't have a strong opinion.

[koivunej]

warp seems like a good choice for this but may lag behind any tokio 0.2 or std::futures migration. There seems to have been already a gateway server attempt in https://github.com/dvc94ch/rust-ipfs/pull/28 ... I wonder why that one was closed? I understand gateway was probably different from a an http api but the question still stands.

[aphelionz]

Work has begin on this using warp and this ticket might now be duplicated by #60 . Should we close this one for now?