From 033e33dadf6ab0aca22e7bbd370598a5ac4b167d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Tiger Chow <brian.holderchow@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:17:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat(core): expose IpfsNode.Resolve

---
 core/core.go   | 5 +++++
 core/io/cat.go | 6 ++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/core.go b/core/core.go
index c6ab76ab7..b5b95cf0f 100644
--- a/core/core.go
+++ b/core/core.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	pin "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/pin"
 	routing "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/routing"
 	dht "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/routing/dht"
+	util "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/util"
 	ds2 "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/util/datastore2"
 	debugerror "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/util/debugerror"
 	eventlog "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/util/eventlog"
@@ -264,6 +265,10 @@ func (n *IpfsNode) OnlineMode() bool {
 	}
 }
 
+func (n *IpfsNode) Resolve(k util.Key) (*merkledag.Node, error) {
+	return (&path.Resolver{n.DAG}).ResolvePath(k.String())
+}
+
 func (n *IpfsNode) Bootstrap(ctx context.Context, peers []peer.PeerInfo) error {
 	if n.DHT != nil {
 		for _, p := range peers {
diff --git a/core/io/cat.go b/core/io/cat.go
index 29dacf9d6..0e0f2712a 100644
--- a/core/io/cat.go
+++ b/core/io/cat.go
@@ -15,16 +15,14 @@ import (
 	"io"
 
 	core "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/core"
-	path "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/path"
 	uio "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/unixfs/io"
 	u "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/util"
 )
 
 func Cat(n *core.IpfsNode, k u.Key) (io.Reader, error) {
-	dag := n.DAG
-	dagNode, err := (&path.Resolver{dag}).ResolvePath(k.String())
+	dagNode, err := n.Resolve(k)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return uio.NewDagReader(dagNode, dag)
+	return uio.NewDagReader(dagNode, n.DAG)
 }