Plugins

It is possible to write your own plugin for pinning content.

Base structure

class myPlugin {
	addWatch(options) { 
	 // ...
	}
	getStats() {
	 // return an object with stats of your plugin 
	}
}
module.exports = myPlugin;

the function addWatch receives an options object containing following fields:

web3 : a web3 object that can be used to inspect the blockchain
logger : a winston instance that can be used for logging
pinner : a pinning object that can be used to pin / unpin IPFS hashes, taking the limits of the consortium into account. If you exceed your quota - it will stop pinning new data.
ipfs : an ipfs-api object that allows you to talk to IPFS directly.
throttledipfs : ipfs-api wrapped in a queue that throttles requests to the API.

Create a folder in the src/plugins directory and add an index.js file there with your module.

src/plugins/
src/plugins/myplugin
src/plugins/myplugin/index.js

Registering is done by adding it on the commandline --enable-plugin=myplugin