OrbitDB / Polkadot IAM (orbit-db-polkadot-iam)
Identity Provider and Access Controller for Polkadot / Substrate based accounts
Install
This is a node.js project.
# deps
npm install ipfs orbit-db @polkadot/api
# install this package
npm install orbit-db-polkadot-iam
See the tests for examples or the following usage section.
Usage
const assert = require('assert')
const OrbitDB = require('orbit-db')
const IPFS = require('ipfs')
const {
AccessControllers,
PolkadotIdentityProvider,
createIdentity
} = require('../src/orbit-db-polkadot-iam')
;(async function () {
// Identity creation based on the passphrase from the Polkadot documentation.
const phrase = 'entire material egg meadow latin bargain dutch coral blood melt acoustic thought'
const identity = await createIdentity(phrase)
// Identity verification using the OrbitDB internals
// See: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db-identity-provider
assert(await PolkadotIdentityProvider.verifyIdentity(identity))
// Usage with IPFS and OrbitDB
const ipfs = await IPFS.create()
const orbitdb = await OrbitDB.createInstance(ipfs, {
AccessControllers: AccessControllers,
identity: identity
})
// Write access can currently be any polkadot ID aka address
const db = await orbitdb.kvstore('root', {
accessController: {
type: 'Polkadot',
write: [identity.id]
}
})
// Only allowed accounts will be permitted to write to the db
await db.set('foo', 'bar')
})()
Contributing
Issues and PRs welcome.
License
MIT © 2021 OrbitDB Community