Django Rest Api For IPFS Storage

REST API written in Django for connecting to the IPFS nodes and basic operations

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Endpoints in this API

1. / : GET
2. get_node_status : GET
3. /<user_id>: GET
4. /add : POST
5. /delete: POST

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Servers to make this work

1. IPFS server
2. MySQL server
3. API server

How to start those servers

IPFS Server

ipfs daemon

MySQL server

Make sure you have installed the mysql server and performed the migrations for my model (i.e. ledger)

To start the server

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

To access the mysql shell

/usr/bin/mysql -u root -p

API server

python3 manage.py runserver

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Endpoint Details (Only Important)

All our APIs take JSON data

1. Adding Files to IPFS

For this we have the endpoint: /add This endpoint follows POST method (Try to access it using Postman)

It takes following parameters with specified name

1. user_id (integer) : id of the user sending the request
2. file_name (string) : name of the file added by the user
3. file_extension (string) : extention of the added file (for example: in case of images it can be .jpeg or .png)
4. file_type (string) : Type of the file being added by the user (This can take values like image, video etc)
5. file_hash (string) : hash of the file added by the user

Response

This returns Error = False after adding the file successfully to API database and Pinning it on IPFS node Else it returns Error = True on errors.

Along with boolean status it also return Message with every response which indicates the status

2. Deleting Files from the IPFS

For this we have the endpoint: /delete This endpoint follows POST method (Try to access it using Postman)

It takes following parameters with specified name

1. user_id (integer) : id of the user sending the request
2. file_name (string) : name of the file to be deleted
3. file_type (string) : Type of the file being deleted by the user (This can take values like image, video etc)

Response

This returns Error = False after deleting the file successfully to API database and unpinning it on IPFS node Else it returns Error = True on errors.

Along with boolean status it also return Message with every response which indicates the status

3. Node Status

For this we have the endpoint: /get_node_status This endpoint follows GET method.

It takes following parameters with specified name

None

Response

This returns Error = False and ID of the Node after successfully getting the status of the node Else it returns Error = True on errors.

Along with boolean status it also return Message with every response which indicates the status

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Useful Links

1. Django Models Documentations
2. Client API Reference