Enhancing Web3 Class

[SethDocherty]

This issue is a WIP to capture enhancement ideas

When instantiating a Web3 object, I believe we should be doing a few more things:

1. Creating a client instance which is a property of Web3.
   • This will significantly enhance the interaction with the STAC API, which could be extended to other methods within Web3.
     • See Issues #37 #38 #39
   • I'm unsure if inheriting the class properties would be the best approach.
   • Since we have to pass in a stac_endpoint URL, it makes sense that the web3 object that's created is tied to that specific endpoint.
2. Creating an IPFS configuration property.
   • This would represent the content of the configuration file but stored in memory. We can use the kubo API to generate our configuration settings that can be modified with the python class

[matthewnanas]

(Commenting to keep organized), second point had been pushed with https://github.com/easierdata/ipfs-stac/commit/22a1e550ea401ee91aa25915e2296664053f2829 overwriting the current config was pushed in bd798ccf4de9cda099218c5ab5de65299cb49ad7

[matthewnanas]

It seems 37 has already been addressed but I have added a function that returns only catalogs as objects instead of IDs (we can scrap this if it's redundant). 38 Is now addressed with 7aa51f55f0ee8648933379c4c0bcb953cc4d4d55

Reference the following sample

from ipfs_stac.client import Web3

client = Web3(stac_endpoint="http://stac.easierdata.info/")

collections = client.get_collections()
tmp = collections[0]

assets = client.getAssetNames(tmp)
print(assets)

[SethDocherty]

(Commenting to keep organized), second point had been pushed with 22a1e55 overwriting the current config was pushed in bd798cc

This is a much cleaner approach. The approach here is that a user must run this method manually if they would like to update the default configuration?

Remind me again: Are the settings found in .ipfs/config used if the IPFS daemon is not already running?