resolve-type=false not working for ls in API

[dokterbob]

Version information:

go-ipfs version: 0.4.3-rc4-db509ec
Repo version: 4
System version: amd64/darwin
Golang version: go1.7.1

Type: bug

Priority: P3

Description:

In order to make link resolution for files relatively fast (to work around #3120), it should be possible to use the API equivalent of --resolve-type=false on the ls command. However, requesting a URL of the form /api/v0/ls?arg=<really_good_hasj>&resolve-type=false happily returns type information.

The likely perpetrator would be the command argument parsing in https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/commands/http/parse.go, where arguments are (very) generically parsed to be interpreted as shell commands. As it seems to work for other arguments, it might be related to the - in flag.

I have also tried with resolve-type, resolvetype and resolve_type.

[Kubuxu]

resolve-type will return type information if it is locally available, it will not try to download the blocks needed for type information.

[Stebalien]

If either resolve-type or size is true, we resolve both the type and the size in the json response (doesn't cost us anymore). This is a bit confusing but I'm not sure it's worth trying to fix it.

Note: if both are false, we won't resolve anything (local or otherwise).