Kubo as a Library Example; Seemingly not workable outside of the parent Kubo repo about kubo HOT 4 CLOSED

It's really odd (okay, I didn't just stop there and kept digging), when I compared the two interfaces:

Boxo: https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/blob/main/coreiface/coreapi.go
go-ipfs: https://github.com/ipfs/interface-go-ipfs-core/blob/master/coreapi.go

They're identical near as I can tell so it's only throwing the error because the two interfaces, despite matching at the interface level have different BlockAPI() functions.

• go-ipfs: https://github.com/ipfs/interface-go-ipfs-core/blob/master/options/block.go
• boxo: https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/blob/main/coreiface/block.go

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@AustinFoss are you still experiencing this? We've been refactoring a lot of libraries and moving things around last quarter, it works now, maybe you were unlucky month ago?

If the issue si still present, mind sending your go.mod file from kubo-as-a-library?

ps. kubo-as-a-library is a legacy example, we now have a more composable SDK at https://github.com/ipfs/boxo, which may serve you bit better

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Seems you are correct and I was just a little unlucky with my timing. Created a fresh go working directory and copy pasted the main.go file from the this repo's /docs/examples/kubo-as-alibrary folder to my fresh directory. Ran go mod init <my-project>, go mod tidy, and changed the path variables at lines 227 & 228; works just as intended now without needing to be part of this parent repo.

Closing this issue.

Per your recommendation of boxo; yes I came across it at the time of writing this but at the time I just wanted an existing implementation that had already been tested and just tweak the libp2p part of it, and not build my own implementation from scratch which is what boxo seems to be. From it's README page, "A library for building IPFS applications and implementations." Will investigate boxo a little more as time allows.

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