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Getting started

Installation​

You can install the identity SDK as a dependency with the command npm install @onchain-id/identity-sdk

you can then require the dependency in your application with

const { IdentitySDK } = require('@onchain-id/identity-sdk');

Or if you are using ES6

import { IdentitySDK } from '@onchain-id/identity-sdk'

Loading an Identity​

The unique identifier of an Identity is its address. To load its data from the BlockChain, you need to instantiate a connection with a BlockChain provider. In this documentation, the test network ropsten will be used. Replace this with homestead to target the main network; see the BlockChain Providers for more information regarding the different types of network.

const ethers = require('ethers');

const provider = ethers.getDefaultProvider('ropsten');

// instantiate an Identity from its address on a specific network.
const identity = await IdentitySDK.Identity.at('0xadD92F8Ef0729E969c5a98Ea5740c9b644B362e3', { provider });

Use the inbuilt SDK methods to retrieve data​

Once the identity is loaded from an address, you can call the methods from the Identity object. Here is a basic example of the method to retrieve all claims of an identity by type.

This example assumes you are using a version of NodeJs that supports async await

(async () => {
  const claims = await identity.getClaimsByType(1);
  
  console.log(claims);
  // Will return the parsed claims of the identity.
})();