Does etherjs plan to integrate with decentralized storage?

[xinbenlv]

Hi Ethers.js authors and dev community

What's our take on supporting decentralized storage content fetch in ethers.js? Can anyone point me to the discussion if ethers.js community has formed a decision or not yet?

I asked because one of my friends is creating a new decentralized storage network called CYFS and he love to make it support the ethers.js and other web3 sdk. The web3js supports IPFS integration and SWARM e.g. web3-bzz to get content. I suggest him to look at how ethers.js approaches this first.

CYFS recently open-sourced its major repo on github. More documentations are upcoming. If you have any questions please let me know.

@xinbenlv

[xinbenlv]

Still waiting to see if any interest from ethers.js community

[ricmoo]

If you mean for the built-in fetch, which is used during many operations, popular decentralization storage providers with well-established public gateways are already supported.

In v6, it will be possible to swap this out for your own custom fetch, which you can add additional schemes too (and ultimately falling back onto the default).

As for the bzz_-specific operations, there is no current plan to provide porcelain APIs to those. That can easily be added by any extension library though, otherwise using the provider.send on a standard JsonRpcProvider will work just fine. :)

[xinbenlv]

@ricmoo : thank you! Got it. The CYFS team might be interested to work on an integration with ethers.js just like other established decentralized storage providers. Is there a particular guideline of implementation you would suggest they to start looking into?