Core API

The Core API is a set of interfaces to the IPFS features and is implemented by the engine. The FileSystem and PubSub features are most often used.

const string filename = "QmS4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuMiUhyvMcX9Ba8nUH4uVv/about";
string text = await ipfs.FileSystem.ReadAllTextAsync(filename);

Features

Each IPFS feature has it's own interface.

Feature	Purpose
Bitswap	Block trading between peers
Block	Manages the blocks
BlockRepository	Manages the repository for blocks
Bootstrap	Trusted peers
Config	Manages the configuration of the local peer
Dag	Manages the IPLD (linked data) Directed Acrylic Graph
Dht	Manages the Distributed Hash Table
Dns	DNS mapping to IPFS
Misc	Some miscellaneous methods
FileSystem	Manages the files/directories in IPFS
Key	Manages the cryptographic keys
Name	Manages the Interplanetary Name Space (IPNS)
Object	Manages the IPFS Directed Acrylic Graph
Pin	Manage objects that are locally stored and permanent
PubSub	Publish and subscribe topic messages
Swarm	Manages the swarm of peers
Stats	Statistics on IPFS components