This JavaScript library provides a simple API to submit and retrieve user data to the Subspace network. The project is in active development with a live test network designed to provide scalable and distributed archival storage.
The Storage API exposes a Subspace node feature called pallet-object-store that implements RPC methods to store an Object from user-provided data. The user can send a simple text or even a file; the pallet-object-store
receives an Object to store and generate an objectId.
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put
: Receive a signed transaction containing an Object to store. It emit aDataSubmitted Event
with an objectId to get the Object from the network. -
findObject
: Receives an objectId to find the related Object stored, if it exists this method will return the Object data.
To expose these methods, this library implements two main classes:
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Identity: Class to load a keyPair from different sources. An instance of this class is required to create a SubspaceClient.
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fromWeb3
: Load keyPair fromweb3Accounts
using@polkadot/extension-dapp
. -
fromUri
: Load keyPair from a secret URI, Example://Alice///password
or amnemonic phrase
.
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SubspaceClient: Class that loads an Identity instance and creates providers to interact with the network.
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connect
: Create anApiPromise
andWsProvider
, returning a SubspaceClient instance ready to call:-
putObject
: Receives an Object as Uint8Array, it create and submit a signedput
transaction and return an objectId. -
getObject
: Receives an objectId callingfindObject
to return the Object as Uint8Array.
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Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/subspace/subspace.js.git
Install dependencies
npm ci
Build the library.
npm run build
// Import the library.
import { SubspaceClient, Identity } from "@subspace/subspace";
// Generate an Identity from node.js
const identity = await Identity.fromUri(mnemonic);
// Generate an Identity from broser using web3Account (injected by extension)
const identity = await Identity.fromWeb3();
// Generate a SubspaceClient and connect to node and farmer rpc endpoints.
const subspaceClient = await SubspaceClient.connect(
identity,
NODE_WS_PROVIDER,
FARMER_WS_PROVIDER
);
// Put the file as (Uint8Array) in to the objectStore and return the objectId
const objectId: string = await subspaceClient.putObject(objectData);
// Using the objectId get the file as (Uint8Array) from the objectStore.
const object: Uint8Array = await subspaceClient.getObject(objectId);
You can check the Subspace repository to learn how configure and run your local network.