Ipfs Document Manager Service

The Ipfs Document Manager Service is a RESTful API service designed to manage documents in IPFS. It provides functionalities for creating, retrieving, and deleting documents.

API Documentation

The API documentation is written in Swagger Swagger Web UI

It can be accessed in local docker-compose environment swagger_ui.

It is generated using swagger generation tool

In case of changes in api definitions, it should be updated. Please run:

go install github.com/swaggo/swag/cmd/swag@latest
swag init --parseDependency

Available Endpoints

• POST /v1/tenants/tenant_space/api/ipfs/create: Creates a new document in IPFS.
• GET /v1/tenants/tenant_space/api/ipfs/:id: Retrieves an existing document from IPFS by its CID.
• DELETE /v1/tenants/tenant_space/api/ipfs/:id: Deletes an existing document from IPFS by its CID.

Dependency services

docker-compose

• IPFS node - Kubo

Running the Service

In Docker container (recommended)

1. Setup Add following to file .env

PROJECT_NAME=ipfs_doc_manager
IPFS_HOST=ipfs-node
IPFS_API_GATEWAY_URL=http://ipfs-node:8080/ipfs
IPFS_RPC_API_PORT=5001
IPFS_LOG_LEVEL=debug
IPFSMANAGER_SERVERMODE=debug
IPFSMANAGER_LISTEN_PORT=8000

2. Build and run service

If necessary, copy to terminal corresponding command from Makefile

make docker-compose-run

Locally

1. Setup Define environment variables in terminal

EXPORT IPFS_HOST=0.0.0.0
EXPORT IPFS_API_GATEWAY_URL=http://0.0.0.0:8080/ipfs
EXPORT IPFS_RPC_API_PORT=5001
EXPORT IPFS_LOG_LEVEL=debug
EXPORT IPFSMANAGER_SERVERMODE=debug
EXPORT IPFSMANAGER_LISTEN_PORT=8000
EXPORT VDR_TYPE=ipfs

2. Build plugin

mkdir etc
cd etc
git clone https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/xfsc/libraries/ssi/verifiable-data-registry/plugins/vdr-ipfs.git .
go mod download
CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -mod=mod -buildmode=plugin -o plugins/ipfs

3. Build and run service

go mod download
CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o /microservice
./microservice

Deploying the service

Deployment is managed using Helm

Charts are defined in ./deployment/helm

From root

cd deployment
helm install ipfs-document-manager-service ./helm -n <your namespace | default> --kubeconfig <path to kubeconfig of necessary cluster>