Method for creating new directory object w/ set of links

Given a list or iterable of {"Hash": CID, "Name": str} objects, it should be possible to create a new directory object using object.put without having to manually create the directory object in bytes, query the size of links, or recursively add single links to directories one at a time (creating intermediate objects). Not sure if I’m missing an API for how to do this, but it would be pretty helpful.

[ntninja]

The recently added .dag.put would allow for this more easily… Except that it doesn’t expose the required format parameter in the implementation I just merged two days ago 🤦 .

(See its upstream docs for why: https://ipfs.io/ipns/docs.ipfs.io/reference/http/api/#api-v0-dag-put)

[ntninja]

Yeah, it probably won’t be hyper-fast. Unfortunately, there exists no HTTP API in IPFS to upload whole directories as lists of CIDs. (Since both .add and .tar.add [not implemented] requires one to include the file bodies to upload as well.) Maybe the relatively new .dag.import could be used but then we’d need to generate CAR (content-addressable archive) data.

If you need the extra performance, it’s probably best to do what @SupraSummus did and just generate the relevant UnixFS protobuf datastructures yourself (using .block.put). They are not overly complicated.

We really need a Python IPLD library to make this kind of stuff easier though.