List Directory With Extra info like Etag

[RangerMauve]

• Look at stuff like WebDAV or other specs
• Add flag to list directory with details

[alphapapa]

Perhaps the closest example is found in WebDAV, 9.1.5. Example - Using So-called 'allprop' (properties available for file entries), which shows a list of properties that can be retrieved for a directory and/or file listing. I'm not sure how instructive it is for us, other than giving us general ideas like: size, creation date, modified date, writable, filetype, etc.

For our purposes, we probably need just a minimum of: name, size, modified time, and created-at-version.

[josephmturner]

We decided that this is not worth the added complexity.

[RangerMauve]

We still want this for cases where doing parallel requests is slow.

I would be happy with something like this:

• figure out which fields are useful across platforms (mtime, isDirectory, size)
• settle on minimal json format or better yet use an existing one
• use an existing json based mime type or invent our own (e.g. application/directory+json)
• publish spec on thisformat and get it into other protocol handlers

[josephmturner]

Added in https://git.sr.ht/~ushin/hypercore-fetch-ushin/commit/1e22c1b. Thanks!