Missing function in ipfs-core that is in kubo: Getting a list of child blocks that make up a cid

[AwesomeKalin]

• Version:

  v0.18.0

• Platform:

  64-bit Windows 11, Node.js 16.18.1

• Subsystem:

Severity:

Low-Medium (Depends on what you are doing)

Description:

In my code, I need to get all the child blocks of a file. However, ipfs-core doe not contain the functionality necessary to get the blocks that make up a cid. In kubo, there is ipfs ls which will get all the blocks that make up a cid, but no ipfs-core

Steps to reproduce the error:

N/A

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[achingbrain]

js-IPFS is in the process of being deprecated, the replacement is Helia - please see the State of IPFS in JS post for a bit of background and the migration guide for how to port your app over.

To list all the CIDs in a block, see dagPbWalker. You will need to call helia.blockstore.get with each yielded CID and recursively invoke the DAG walker until you've traversed the entire graph.