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Is there a way to uniformly represent links and relationships between IPFS files in IPFS itself?

• diggan 8y ago
  Yes, that's what IPLD (https://ipld.io/ https://ipld.io/) is for and more. It's used in IPFS to do links between files in IPFS and also links between files and other formats like Git or Ethereum transactions. You can see the data structure itself if you use the `ipfs object` commands: $ tree test-directory test-directory ├── directory-a │ └── file-b └── file-a 1 directory, 2 files $ ipfs add -r test-directory added QmbFMke1KXqnYyBBWxB74N4c5SBnJMVAiMNRcGu6x1AwQH test-directory/directory-a/file-b added QmbFMke1KXqnYyBBWxB74N4c5SBnJMVAiMNRcGu6x1AwQH test-directory/file-a added QmVSi16sFvaKxJXGHWj9yCVcbxJBLRePBARKt1KUyWMGAK test-directory/directory-a added Qmbm9JEWeD8EX4pQUYpx4eDsjqyzGjQMdGzdJEdwJvcHb4 test-directory $ ipfs object get Qmbm9JEWeD8EX4pQUYpx4eDsjqyzGjQMdGzdJEdwJvcHb4 {"Links":[{"Name":"directory-a","Hash":"QmVSi16sFvaKxJXGHWj9yCVcbxJBLRePBARKt1KUyWMGAK","Size":58},{"Name":"file-a","Hash":"QmbFMke1KXqnYyBBWxB74N4c5SBnJMVAiMNRcGu6x1AwQH","Size":6}],"Data":"\u0008\u0001"} $ ipfs object get QmVSi16sFvaKxJXGHWj9yCVcbxJBLRePBARKt1KUyWMGAK {"Links":[{"Name":"file-b","Hash":"QmbFMke1KXqnYyBBWxB74N4c5SBnJMVAiMNRcGu6x1AwQH","Size":6}],"Data":"\u0008\u0001"}