rustic x irys

[benjaminpreiss]

Hey there @aawsome!

We already discussed some topics and let me say - I am a big fan of rustic!
These days I have been speaking to the founder of Irys, an onchain (blockchain) data storage solution.
As rustic does use opendal, I was wondering how hard it would be to implement an irys integration?

I would be glad to get some insights from you on the topic!

[aawsome]

@benjaminpreiss Thanks for your question regarding adding new storage backends to rustic.
In fact, the interface to storage backend is very narrow and not much functionality is needed. Basically it boils down to reading/creating/listing/removing objects in the storage.

See e.g. https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic_core/blob/main/crates/core/src/backend.rs#L343 which shows how the storage interface is mocked for some tests.

That said, we are not very much into adding direct support for a variety of storage backend as the opendal library is a great project which adds support for many storage backends and they are very open to support new storages.

So, in my view the better effort would be to add such support to opendal which would directly (maybe we'd need to add feature flags to the opendal dependency) allow rustic to use the storage - and also many other projects relying on opendal.

[benjaminpreiss]

Alright, got it! I'll talk to the opendal people then :)