feat: support string data in pubsub.publish

License: MIT Signed-off-by: Alan Shaw <[email protected]>
ipfs-inactive · Aug 28, 2019 · 743cacd · 743cacd
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
     "cross-env": "^5.2.0",
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "go-ipfs-dep": "~0.4.21",
-    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.110.0",
+    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.111.0",
     "ipfsd-ctl": "~0.43.0",
     "nock": "^10.0.2",
     "stream-equal": "^1.1.1"

diff --git a/src/pubsub/publish.js b/src/pubsub/publish.js
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ const configure = require('../lib/configure')
 module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
   return async (topic, data, options) => {
     options = options || {}
-
-    if (!Buffer.isBuffer(data)) {
-      throw new Error('data must be a Buffer')
-    }
+    data = Buffer.from(data)
 
     const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(options.searchParams)
     searchParams.set('arg', topic)