allow CLI consumer to specify CID encoding for output

cli/client.go

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/ipfs/go-cid"
 	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/peer"
-	"github.com/multiformats/go-multibase"
 	"golang.org/x/xerrors"
 	"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v2"
 
@@ -69,12 +68,12 @@ var clientImportCmd = &cli.Command{
 			return err
 		}
 
-		encoded, err := c.StringOfBase(multibase.Base32)
+		encoder, err := GetCidEncoder(cctx)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		fmt.Println(encoded)
+		fmt.Println(encoder.Encode(c))
 
 		return nil
 	},
@@ -106,12 +105,12 @@ var clientCommPCmd = &cli.Command{
 			return err
 		}
 
-		encoded, err := ret.Root.StringOfBase(multibase.Base32)
+		encoder, err := GetCidEncoder(cctx)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		fmt.Println("CID: ", encoded)
+		fmt.Println("CID: ", encoder.Encode(ret.Root))
 		fmt.Println("Piece size: ", ret.Size)
 		return nil
 	},
@@ -162,13 +161,14 @@ var clientLocalCmd = &cli.Command{
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		for _, v := range list {
-			encoded, err := v.Key.StringOfBase(multibase.Base32)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
 
-			fmt.Printf("%s %s %d %s\n", encoded, v.FilePath, v.Size, v.Status)
+		encoder, err := GetCidEncoder(cctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		for _, v := range list {
+			fmt.Printf("%s %s %d %s\n", encoder.Encode(v.Key), v.FilePath, v.Size, v.Status)
 		}
 		return nil
 	},
@@ -281,12 +281,12 @@ var clientDealCmd = &cli.Command{
 			return err
 		}
 
-		encoded, err := proposal.StringOfBase(multibase.Base32)
+		encoder, err := GetCidEncoder(cctx)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		fmt.Println(encoded)
+		fmt.Println(encoder.Encode(*proposal))
 
 		return nil
 	},

cli/cmd.go

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 
+	"github.com/multiformats/go-multibase"
+
+	cidenc "github.com/ipfs/go-cidutil/cidenc"
 	logging "github.com/ipfs/go-log/v2"
 	"github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir"
 	"github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr"
@@ -193,6 +196,24 @@ func DaemonContext(cctx *cli.Context) context.Context {
 	return context.Background()
 }
 
+// GetCidEncoder returns an encoder using the cid-base flag if provided, or
+// the default (Base32) encoder if not.
+func GetCidEncoder(cctx *cli.Context) (cidenc.Encoder, error) {
+	val := cctx.String("cid-base")
+
+	e := cidenc.Default()
+
+	if val != "" {
+		var err error
+		e.Base, err = multibase.EncoderByName(val)
+		if err != nil {
+			return e, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return e, nil
+}
+
 // ReqContext returns context for cli execution. Calling it for the first time
 // installs SIGTERM handler that will close returned context.
 // Not safe for concurrent execution.

cmd/lotus/main.go

@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ func main() {
 				Hidden:  true,
 				Value:   "~/.lotus", // TODO: Consider XDG_DATA_HOME
 			},
+			&cli.StringFlag{
+				Name:        "cid-base",
+				Hidden:      true,
+				Value:       "base32",
+				Usage:       "Multibase encoding used for version 1 CIDs in output.",
+				DefaultText: "base32",
+			},
 		},
 
 		Commands: append(local, lcli.Commands...),

go.mod

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/ipfs/go-block-format v0.0.2
 	github.com/ipfs/go-blockservice v0.1.3
 	github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.6-0.20200501230655-7c82f3b81c00
+	github.com/ipfs/go-cidutil v0.0.2
 	github.com/ipfs/go-datastore v0.4.4
 	github.com/ipfs/go-ds-badger2 v0.1.0
 	github.com/ipfs/go-filestore v1.0.0

go.sum

@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@ github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.4/go.mod h1:4LLaPOQwmk5z9LBgQnpkivrx8BJjUyGwTXCd5Xfj
 github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.5/go.mod h1:plgt+Y5MnOey4vO4UlUazGqdbEXuFYitED67FexhXog=
 github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.6-0.20200501230655-7c82f3b81c00 h1:QN88Q0kT2QiDaLxpR/SDsqOBtNIEF/F3n96gSDUimkA=
 github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.6-0.20200501230655-7c82f3b81c00/go.mod h1:plgt+Y5MnOey4vO4UlUazGqdbEXuFYitED67FexhXog=
+github.com/ipfs/go-cidutil v0.0.2 h1:CNOboQf1t7Qp0nuNh8QMmhJs0+Q//bRL1axtCnIB1Yo=
+github.com/ipfs/go-cidutil v0.0.2/go.mod h1:ewllrvrxG6AMYStla3GD7Cqn+XYSLqjK0vc+086tB6s=
 github.com/ipfs/go-datastore v0.0.1/go.mod h1:d4KVXhMt913cLBEI/PXAy6ko+W7e9AhyAKBGh803qeE=
 github.com/ipfs/go-datastore v0.0.5/go.mod h1:d4KVXhMt913cLBEI/PXAy6ko+W7e9AhyAKBGh803qeE=
 github.com/ipfs/go-datastore v0.1.0/go.mod h1:d4KVXhMt913cLBEI/PXAy6ko+W7e9AhyAKBGh803qeE=