From 2f236179d76af8b13b4379a139eb7f32badb8c03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Friedel Ziegelmayer <dignifiedquire@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 21:33:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat(object): add template option to object.new

---
 API/object/README.md |  6 +++---
 src/object.js        | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/API/object/README.md b/API/object/README.md
index e0315695..a613730f 100644
--- a/API/object/README.md
+++ b/API/object/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ object API
 
 ##### `Go` **WIP**
 
-##### `JavaScript` - ipfs.object.new([callback])
+##### `JavaScript` - ipfs.object.new([template][, callback])
+
+`template` if defined, must be a string `unixfs-dir` and if that is passed, the created node will be an empty unixfs style directory.
 
 `callback` must follow `function (err, node) {}` signature, where `err` is an error if the operation was not successful and `node` is a MerkleDAG node of the type [DAGNode][]
 
@@ -256,5 +258,3 @@ If no `callback` is passed, a [promise][] is returned.
 [DAGNode]: https://github.com/vijayee/js-ipfs-merkle-dag
 [multihash]: http://github.com/jbenet/multihash
 [promise]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise
-
-
diff --git a/src/object.js b/src/object.js
index 4468f870..cd130456 100644
--- a/src/object.js
+++ b/src/object.js
@@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ module.exports = (common) => {
             done()
           })
         })
+
+        it('template unixfs-dir', (done) => {
+          ipfs.object.new('unixfs-dir', (err, node) => {
+            expect(err).to.not.exist
+            const nodeJSON = node.toJSON()
+            expect(
+              nodeJSON.multihash
+            ).to.equal(
+              'QmUNLLsPACCz1vLxQVkXqqLX5R1X345qqfHbsf67hvA3Nn'
+            )
+            done()
+          })
+        })
       })
 
       describe('.put', () => {