From d32dad939c22012d025d68090a371d696e498461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitriy Ryajov <dryajov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 05:08:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: accept objects in file.add (#1257)

hotfix: this was a regression on last release
---
 package.json                 | 2 +-
 src/core/components/files.js | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 46bcde1e6f..2a51278138 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     "hapi-set-header": "^1.0.2",
     "hoek": "^5.0.3",
     "human-to-milliseconds": "^1.0.0",
-    "ipfs-api": "^18.1.1",
+    "ipfs-api": "^18.1.2",
     "ipfs-bitswap": "~0.19.0",
     "ipfs-block": "~0.6.1",
     "ipfs-block-service": "~0.13.0",
diff --git a/src/core/components/files.js b/src/core/components/files.js
index f0a5e94918..5906487570 100644
--- a/src/core/components/files.js
+++ b/src/core/components/files.js
@@ -193,10 +193,11 @@ module.exports = function files (self) {
       const ok = Buffer.isBuffer(data) ||
                  isStream.readable(data) ||
                  Array.isArray(data) ||
-                 OtherBuffer.isBuffer(data)
+                 OtherBuffer.isBuffer(data) ||
+                 typeof data === 'object'
 
       if (!ok) {
-        return callback(new Error('Invalid arguments, data must be an object, Buffer or readable stream'))
+        return callback(new Error('first arg must be a buffer, readable stream, an object or array of objects'))
       }
 
       pull(