Follow interface-ipfs-core for files.cat

package.json

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     "flatmap": "0.0.3",
     "glob": "^7.0.3",
     "ipfs-merkle-dag": "^0.6.0",
+    "is-ipfs": "^0.2.0",
     "isstream": "^0.1.2",
     "multiaddr": "^2.0.0",
     "multipart-stream": "^2.0.1",
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
     "aegir": "^3.2.0",
     "chai": "^3.5.0",
     "gulp": "^3.9.1",
-    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.2.2",
+    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.3.0",
     "ipfsd-ctl": "^0.14.0",
     "pre-commit": "^1.1.2",
     "stream-equal": "^0.1.8",
@@ -93,4 +94,4 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/issues"
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api"
-}
+}

src/api/cat.js

@@ -1,7 +1,27 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const argCommand = require('../cmd-helpers').argCommand
+const bs58 = require('bs58')
+const isIPFS = require('is-ipfs')
+const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
 
 module.exports = (send) => {
-  return argCommand(send, 'cat')
+  const cat = promisify((multihash, callback) => {
+    try {
+      multihash = cleanMultihash(multihash)
+    } catch (err) {
+      return callback(err)
+    }
+    send('cat', multihash, null, null, callback)
+  })
+  return cat
+}
+
+function cleanMultihash (multihash) {
+  if (!isIPFS.multihash(multihash)) {
+    throw new Error('not valid multihash')
+  }
+  if (Buffer.isBuffer(multihash)) {
+    return bs58.encode(multihash)
+  }
+  return multihash
 }

test/api/files.spec.js

@@ -5,12 +5,25 @@
 const expect = require('chai').expect
 const isNode = require('detect-node')
 const path = require('path')
+const test = require('interface-ipfs-core')
 
 let testfile
 
 testfile = require('fs').readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '/../testfile.txt'))
 
-describe('.files', () => {
+// Load the add/cat/get/ls commands from interface-ipfs-core
+const common = {
+  setup: function (cb) {
+    cb(null, apiClients.a)
+  },
+  teardown: function (cb) {
+    cb()
+  }
+}
+test.files(common)
+
+// Describe the (mfs) tests
+describe('.files (pseudo mfs)', () => {
   it('files.mkdir', (done) => {
     apiClients.a.files.mkdir('/test-folder', function (err) {
       expect(err).to.not.exist