Interface Agent

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getPrincipal

• getPrincipal(): Promise<types.Principal>

• Returns the principal ID associated with this agent (by default). It only shows the principal of the default identity in the agent, which is the principal used when calls don't specify it.

  Returns Promise<types.Principal>

Optional createReadStateRequest

• createReadStateRequest(options, identity?): Promise<any>

• Create the request for the read state call. readState uses this internally. Useful to avoid signing the same request multiple times.

  Parameters

  • options: utils.agent.ReadStateOptions
  • Optional identity: types.Identity

  Returns Promise<any>

readState

• readState(effectiveCanisterId, options, identity?, request?): Promise<utils.agent.ReadStateResponse>

• Send a read state query to the replica. This includes a list of paths to return, and will return a Certificate. This will only reject on communication errors, but the certificate might contain less information than requested.

  Parameters

  • effectiveCanisterId: string | types.Principal

    A Canister ID related to this call.
  • options: utils.agent.ReadStateOptions

    The options for this call.
  • Optional identity: types.Identity

    Identity for the call. If not specified, uses the instance identity.
  • Optional request: any

    The request to send in case it has already been created.

  Returns Promise<utils.agent.ReadStateResponse>

call

• call(canisterId, fields): Promise<utils.agent.SubmitResponse>

• Parameters

  • canisterId: string | types.Principal
  • fields: utils.agent.CallOptions

  Returns Promise<utils.agent.SubmitResponse>

status

• status(): Promise<utils.candid.JsonObject>

• Query the status endpoint of the replica. This normally has a few fields that corresponds to the version of the replica, its root public key, and any other information made public.

  Returns Promise<utils.candid.JsonObject>

  A JsonObject that is essentially a record of fields from the status endpoint.

query

• query(canisterId, options, identity?): Promise<utils.agent.ApiQueryResponse>

• Send a query call to a canister. See the interface spec.

  Parameters

  • canisterId: string | types.Principal

    The Principal of the Canister to send the query to. Sending a query to the management canister is not supported (as it has no meaning from an agent).
  • options: utils.agent.QueryFields

    Options to use to create and send the query.
  • Optional identity: types.Identity | Promise<types.Identity>

    Sender principal to use when sending the query.

  Returns Promise<utils.agent.ApiQueryResponse>

  The response from the replica. The Promise will only reject when the communication failed. If the query itself failed but no protocol errors happened, the response will be of type QueryResponseRejected.

fetchRootKey

• fetchRootKey(): Promise<ArrayBuffer>

• By default, the agent is configured to talk to the main Internet Computer, and verifies responses using a hard-coded public key.

  This function will instruct the agent to ask the endpoint for its public key, and use that instead. This is required when talking to a local test instance, for example.

  Only use this when you are not talking to the main Internet Computer, otherwise you are prone to man-in-the-middle attacks! Do not call this function by default.

  Returns Promise<ArrayBuffer>

Optional invalidateIdentity

• invalidateIdentity(): void

• If an application needs to invalidate an identity under certain conditions, an Agent may expose an invalidateIdentity method. Invoking this method will set the inner identity used by the Agent to null.

  A use case for this would be - after a certain period of inactivity, a secure application chooses to invalidate the identity of any HttpAgent instances. An invalid identity can be replaced by Agent.replaceIdentity

  Returns void

Optional replaceIdentity

• replaceIdentity(identity): void

• If an application needs to replace an identity under certain conditions, an Agent may expose a replaceIdentity method. Invoking this method will set the inner identity used by the Agent to a newly provided identity.

  A use case for this would be - after authenticating using @dfinity/auth-client, you can replace the AnonymousIdentity of your Actor with a DelegationIdentity.

  Actor.agentOf(defaultActor).replaceIdentity(await authClient.getIdentity());

  Parameters

  • identity: types.Identity

  Returns void