List Directory With Extra info like Etag

RangerMauve / hypercore-fetch

Implementation of Fetch that uses the Hyper SDK for loading p2p content

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List Directory With Extra info like Etag #73

Open RangerMauve opened 1 year ago

RangerMauve commented 1 year ago

[ ] Look at stuff like WebDAV or other specs
[ ] Add flag to list directory with details

alphapapa commented 1 year ago

Perhaps the closest example is found in WebDAV, 9.1.5. Example - Using So-called 'allprop' (properties available for file entries), which shows a list of properties that can be retrieved for a directory and/or file listing. I'm not sure how instructive it is for us, other than giving us general ideas like: size, creation date, modified date, writable, filetype, etc.

For our purposes, we probably need just a minimum of: name, size, modified time, and created-at-version.

josephmturner commented 1 year ago

We decided that this is not worth the added complexity.

RangerMauve commented 10 months ago

We still want this for cases where doing parallel requests is slow.

I would be happy with something like this:

figure out which fields are useful across platforms (mtime, isDirectory, size)
settle on minimal json format or better yet use an existing one
use an existing json based mime type or invent our own (e.g. application/directory+json)
publish spec on thisformat and get it into other protocol handlers