Rod Vagg

Encoders/Decoders don't get registered with cidlink.MulticodecDecoder unless you touch them

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If you just want to consume via cidlink and not directly with dagcbor or dagjson, you don't get the benefit of `init()` in dagjson/multicodec.go or dagcbor/multicodec.go registering themselves for you....

Option to validate CID matches block

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Of course this requires having the right hashers available to do the validation, which might be a problem. Ref: https://github.com/ipld/js-car/pull/121#discussion_r1074000910

feat: add carv2-messaging example for embedding messages in CARv2

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## Background This comes from a feature request by @mikeal to be able to signal additional, potentially arbitrary properties for backend communication, like supplying "PieceCID" for the CAR, and other...

CarWriter.fromIterable(roots, blockIterator)

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@alanshaw had an API suggestion over @ https://github.com/web3-storage/ipfs-car/pull/74 ```js const out = await CarWriter.fromIterable([root], blockstore.blocks()) ``` Some things to be resolved: 1. Should it be named `fromBlockIterable()` to make absolutely...

This is a low priority nice-to-have item but might be fun to implement for someone. A cron Action that: 1. Runs `npm run update-table` and checks whether anything's changed 2....

Qualifications for identification as a "codec"

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This question comes up very regularly, essentially what are the qualifications for being included in this table, but I'm particularly focusing on the "codec"s in here, IPLD and related. Some...

Options for adding docs and test fixtures for multicodec entries

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In the space of a few weeks we have two separate discussion about needing a place to define entries in the multicodec table, including test fixtures: * Murmur3 specifics needing...

Add JSON form of the table

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I can't find the issue(s) where we discussed this but there's been a proposal on the _table_ for a while that we represent the multicodec table as JSON for easier...

Ref: https://github.com/ipni/go-libipni/blob/dfad9b30814eaede8c7e934f120b632bb180511c/maurl/convert.go#L35 Ref: https://github.com/ipni/go-libipni/issues/42

Add JSON form of table

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Closes: #305 Draft for now, just putting it up for initial feedback. * one entry per line, but still a valid complete JSON file, so it also has `[` and...