Discussion: Backwards incompatible interface change about cpp-ipfs-http-client

[vasild]

The thing is that cat implies printing the file to stdout which makes sense from the perspective of a cli tool, but not from the perspective of a library (or does it?).

So I think it is most reasonable to have a method that retrieves the file and provides its contents to the caller (like FilesGet does now).

Maybe another method to "download" the file - store its contents on disk instead of returning it to the caller.

If there is a method named FilesCat I think it should print the contents of the file to stdout. Maybe this would not be very useful, this is why I did not add it.

[melroy89]

OK. Thank you for your reply.

Clear story. So let's keep the current naming convention. And maybe add filesdownload