ipfs-cluster/api/rest/client/README.md
Hector Sanjuan 0a8edc17c9 Fix #260: Add REST API client and use it in ipfs-cluster-ctl
This adds the pakage api/rest/client which implements a go-client
for the REST API component. It also update the ipfs-cluster-ctl
tool to rely on it.

Originally, I wanted this to live it in it's own separate repository,
but the api client uses /api/types.go, which is part of cluster.

Therefore it would need to import all of cluster as a dependency.
ipfs-cluster-ctl would also need to import go-ipfs-cluster-api-client
as a dependency, creating circular gx deps which would be a mess to
maintain.

Only the splitting of cluster in multiple repositories (at least for
api, rest, ipfs-cluster-ctl, rest/client and test) would allow better
dependency management by allowing rest/client and the ctl tool
to only import what is needed, but this is something which brings
maintenance costs and can probably wait a bit until cluster is more stable.

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Hector Sanjuan <code@hector.link>
2017-12-06 20:12:01 +01:00

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# ipfs-cluster client
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> Go client for ipfs-cluster HTTP API.
This is a Go client library to use the ipfs-cluster REST HTTP API.
## Table of Contents
- [Install](#install)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Contribute](#contribute)
- [License](#license)
## Install
You can import `github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/api/rest/client` in your code. If you wish to use [`gx`](https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx-go) for dependency management, it can be imported with:
```
$ gx import github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/
```
The code can be downloaded and tested with:
```
$ go get -u -d github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/rest/api/client
$ go test -v
```
## Usage
Documentation can be read at [Godoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/api/rest/client).
## Contribute
PRs accepted.
## License
MIT © Protocol Labs