Telegram-Mini-Apps/telegram-apps

[Feature]: Not clear documentation on init-data-node package, can't configure end to end validation

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Not quite sure what kind of issue to open, bug or feature. I'm kinda sure that I'm doing something wrong, but have no idea what exactly. Currently I'm struggling with validation with init-data-node package. Constantly get Signature is invalid whatever I try to pass to validate.

I see some differences between documentation and real life. For instance the user data passed as encoded URI component in example has format user_name: '...', but useInitData() returns userName: '...'. Additionally, if look into .validate() implementation it seems that ordering in user data JSON should be important.

I tried to pass URI, to pass result of useInitData() but any option returned me a Signature is invalid. Currently me approach is to pass decodeURIComponent(window.location.hash.replace("#tgWebAppData=", "")) to NodeJS, then use parseInitData on it and pass result to .validate. I run out of ideas what else am I doing wrong. Some help will be very useful and appreciated

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Add an end to end example or more detailed description of how to get data on client side and pass it to NodeJS including formats, ordering etc

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Hey! If you are using @telegram-apps/sdk-react, you must use useLaunchParams().initDataRaw. useInitData() returns an object based on the raw representation, but it may cut some fields or mutate values for more comfortable usage.

Think of the useInitData result as an object with just some picked and typed values from the raw representation. You can't use it to pass to the server side

Wow, seems works for me. I think it will be great to explicitly highlight this in documentation.