How recreate a hash digest of a multihash in IPFS

Question

Assuming I\'m adding data to IPFS like this:

$ echo Hello World | ipfs add

This will give me QmWATWQ7fVPP2EFGu71UkfnqhYXDYH566qy47CnJ

Answer 1

According to Steven's answer, using protobuf is working. Here is the full code of my approach.

ipfs.proto

syntax = "proto3";

message PBNode {
bytes Data = 1;
}

message PBLink {
bytes Hash = 1;
string Name = 2;
uint64 Tsize = 3;
}

message Data {
enum DataType {
    Raw = 0;
    Directory = 1;
    File = 2;
    Metadata = 3;
    Symlink = 4;
    HAMTShard = 5;
}
DataType Type = 1;
bytes Data = 2;
}

cid.js

const mh = require('multihashes');
const axios = require('axios');
const crypto = require('crypto');
const protobuf = require("protobufjs");
const IPFS = protobuf.loadSync('./ipfs.proto').lookupType('PBNode');

class CID {
/**
* convert IPFS multihash to sha2-256 hash string
* @param {string} multihash
* @param {boolean} prefix
* @returns {string} sha2-256 hash string starting with 0x
*/
static toHash(multihash, prefix = false) {
    return prefix ? '0x' : ''
    + mh.decode(mh.fromB58String(multihash)).digest.toString('hex')
}

/**
* convert sha2-256 hash string to IPFS multihash
* @param {string} str
* @returns {string} IPFS multihash starting with Qm
*/
static fromHash(str) {
    str = str.startsWith('0x') ? str.slice(2) : str;
    return mh.toB58String(mh.encode(Buffer.from(str, 'hex'), 'sha2-256'))
}

/**
* hash the buffer and get the SHA256 result compatible with IPFS multihash
* @param {Buffer} buf
* @returns {string}
*/
static hash(buf) {
    const r = IPFS.encode({
    Data: {
        Type: 2,
        Data: buf,
        filesize: buf.length
    }

    }).finish();
    return crypto.createHash('sha256').update(r).digest('hex');
}
}

async function ipfsGet(cid) {
const x = await axios.get(`http://your.address.xxx/ipfs/${cid}`, {
    responseType: 'arraybuffer'
});
return Buffer.from(x.data);
}

const r = "QmfQj4DUWEudeFdWKVzPaTbYimdYzsp14DZX1VLV1BbtdN";
const hashFromCID = CID.toHash(r);
console.log(hashFromCID);
ipfsGet(r).then(buf => {
const hashCalculated = CID.hash(buf);
console.log(hashCalculated);
console.log(hashCalculated === hashFromCID);
console.log(CID.fromHash(hashCalculated) === r)
});

module.exports = CID;