node

Overview ¶

The 'node' package gathers various general purpose Node implementations; the first one you should jump to is 'node/basic'.

There's no code in this package itself; it's just for grouping.

The `Node` interface itself is in the `ipld` package, which is the parent of this.

The 'node/mixins' package contains reusable component code for building your own node implementations, should you desire to do so. This includes standardized behavioral tests (!), which are in the 'node/mixins/tests' package.

Other planned subpackages include: a cbor-native Node implementation (which can optimize performance in some cases by lazily parsing serial data, and also retaining it as byte slice references for minimizing reserialization work for small mutations); a Node implementation which works over golang native types by use of reflection; a Node implementation which supports Schema type constraints and works without compile-time/codegen support by delegating storage to another Node implementation; etc.

You can create your own Node implementations, too. There's nothing special about being in this package.

Other Node implementations not found here may include those which are output from Schema-powered codegen!