README

Planet Nine Gateway

A node framework for embedding gateways in your apps and interacting with the Planet Nine ecosystem.

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Quick Reference

Setup

npm Package

Install with npm by running the following in the root directory of your node project:

npm i planet-nine-gateway-framework

Cryptography

In order to handle ongoing gateways or Nineum transfer requests, your app will need to generate, store, and retrieve a public/private key pair for the gateway. Storing cryptographic keys has repercussions for storing information in your app and how to do so is outside of the scope of the Planet Nine Gateway framework and this documentation. (To learn more about the cryptography necessary for Planet Nine please check out here.) This README assumes that you've already implemented a way to store keys securely. To allow the Planet Nine framework to use your key pair to sign messages to our backend, you need to override the getKeys() method with a function that returns your securely stored keys:

const PlanetNineGateway = require('planet-nine-gateway-framework')

const randomSeed = //Generate cryptographicaly secure random seed here

const keys = PlanetNineGateway.generateKeys(randomSeed)
//Store keys securely here

crypto.getKeys = function() {
  //Retrieve keys from secure storage here
  return keys
}

Ongoing Gateways

An ongoing gateway is used when you want to utilize a user's information, typically their Nineum, and/or you want to make Power expenditures on their behalf. Once a user has connected their account to your app you'll see their user information and be able to perform Power transactions. A user can revoke this connection at any time so be sure to handle that situation in your app.

Initializing an Ongoing Gateway

Before using an ongoing gateway, you must first initialize it with a gateway name and a public key:

const PlanetNineGateway = require('planet-nine-gateway-framework')
const crypto = require('planet-nine-crypto')

const keys = crypto.getKeys()

let gateway = new PlanetNineGateway()
gateway.ongoingGateway({gatewayName: 'test-gateway', publicKey: keys.publicKey})

Authorizing an Ongoing Gateway

Once an ongoing gateway is initialized, each user much authorize the gateway to make transactions on their account. One ongoing gateway can have multiple user accounts authorized through it.

A typical implementation involves prompting a user for their username and then looking up that user's userId with their username:

gateway.getUserIdByUsername('test-user', (err, userId) => {
  gateway.askForOngoingGatewayUsage(userId, (erro, user) => {
    if (erro && erro === 'Ongoing gateway usage request expired') {
      //Handle rejection or timeout
    }
    console.log('user', user);
  })
})

Invoking askForOngoingGatewayUsage will prompt the user to authorize your ongoing gateway in the Planet Nine app. It may be helpful to prompt the user to open the Planet Nine app on their mobile device. askForOngoingGatewayUsage will either return the user object if authorization is successful or it will return a Ongoing gateway usage request expired error if the request times out or is rejected.

Once a user has approved your ongoing gateway you can retrieve their user object and make Power transactions and Nineum transfer request on their behalf.

Getting users

If a user has authorized your ongoing gateway, you can retrieve their user object from the Planet Nine backend:

let userId = 157; //set to whatever your desired userId is
gateway.getUser(userId, (err, user) => {
  console.log('user', user)
})

This user object will have all the relevant user information including the user's Nineum. For an example of working with a user's Nineum check out this blogpost about making an inventory system (TODO: Link to inventory system blog post).

Planet Nine user objects have the following structure:

user { userId: 157,
  name: 'testuser12',
  powerOrdinal: 1,
  currentPower: 1000,
  powerRegenerationRate: 1.6666984999999996,
  globalRegenerationRate: 1.666667,
  publicKey: '0367fab3d8b194f2557d75a20b2b5d7f181eaf82d6e2705b3012545efe1730b45c',
  nineum:
   [ '01000000010105010203030100000001',
     '01000000010106090407070100000001',
     '01000000010204030802020100000002' ] }

Spending Power

You can make Power expenditures on behalf of users who have authorized your gateway. To do this you will need to call usePowerAtOngoingGateway like so:

const opts = {
  totalPower: 200,
  partnerName: "tray-whirl-whirl",
  user: user, //retrieve locally cached user or call gateway.getUser()
}  
gateway.usePowerAtOngoingGateway(usePowerOpts, (err, user) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  }
  console.log('user', user)
})

Remember to be responsible with user's Power, if you spend it when you shouldn't they'll revoke their connection and your reputation will suffer.

Transferring Nineum

Transferring Nineum is a two-step process. First a request for a transfer is made, then the sending user must approve the transfer in the Planet Nine app. This is because third-parties are not given permission to exchange a user's Nineum. To initiate a transfer request:

const requestTransferObj = {
  sourceUser: user, //retrieve locally cached user or call gateway.getUser()
  destinationUserId: 1, //call gateway.getUserIdByUsername() if needed to lookup the receiving user's userId
  nineumUniqueIds: ['01000000010204030802020100000002'], //Array of 1 or more Nineum
}  
gateway.requestTransfer(requestTransferObj, (err, trasnferRequest) => {
  console.log('trasnferRequest', trasnferRequest)
})

Nineum

Once a user has connected their account you will be able to see their Nineum (by calling getUser) and use it in your application. Nineum has a variety of properties that you can make use of to do interesting stuff in your implementation. A Nineum is represented by a 128-bit integer represented as a hex string, and a user's Nineum is an array of those hex strings.

Nineum have the following structure:

Nineum {
  universe: 'The Universe',
  address: 'Planet Nine',
  charge: 'Positive',
  direction: 'West',
  rarity: 'Nine',
  size: 'Huge',
  texture: 'Gritty',
  shape: 'Cone',
  year: 'Year One',
  ordinal: 1,
  uniqueId: '01000000010104090805070100000001', 
}

The Planet Nine Gateway framework includes some utility functions to help parse Nineum objects from Nineum hex strings. These functions can be used without initializing an ongoing gateway or receiving user authorization for a gateway.

Call getNineumFromHexString to parse a single Nineum hex string:

const PlanetNineGateway = require('planet-nine-gateway-framework')

const NineumHexString = '01000000010104090805070100000001'
const nineum = PlanetNineGateway.getNineumFromHexString(NineumHexString)
console.log(nineum)

Or call getNineumArrayForNineumHexStrings to parse an array of Nineum hex strings into an array of Nineum:

const PlanetNineGateway = require('planet-nine-gateway-framework')

const nineumHexStringArray = [
  '01000000010105010203030100000001',
  '01000000010203090506080100000001',
  '01000000010203090308020100000001',
]
const nineumArray = PlanetNineGateway.getNineumArrayForNineumHexStrings(nineumHexStringArray) 
console.log(nineumArray)

Quick Reference Guide

ongoingGateway

planetNineGateway.ongoingGateway(options)

Initializes an ongoing gateway with options specified in the opts object.

Parameters

options

ongoingGateway() takes an options object with the following properties:

Property	Description	Type
gatewayName	Name of the gateway	String
publicKey	Public key for gateway	String

getUserIdByUsername

planetNineGateway.getUserIdByUsername(username, callback)

Looks up a user's user ID by username.

Parameters

username

The username of the user whose user ID you want to look up

callback(optional)

Optional callback function

askForOngoingGatewayUsage

planetNineGateway.askForOngoingGatewayUsage(userId, callback)

Prompts users to authorize the ongoing gateway.

Parameters

userId

User ID of the user whose authorization you are requesting

callback(optional)

Optional callback function

getUser

planetNineGateway.getUser(userId, callback)

Gets the user object for the user with the specified user ID.

Note: Returns an Error: Authentication error if the user has not authorized the gateway.

Parameters

userId

The user ID of the user whose you want to get

callback(optional)

Optional callback function

usePowerAtOngoingGateway

planetNineGateway.usePowerAtOngoingGateway(options, callback)

Spends a user's Power at the gateway.

Note: Returns an Error: Authentication error if the user has not authorized the gateway.

Parameters

options

ongoingGateway() takes an options object with the following properties:

Property	Description	Type
totalPower	Amount of Power user will spend at your gateway	Int
partnerName	Name of account that will receive partner Nineum	String
user	User object retrieved from getUser() for the user whose Power will be spent at the gateway	Object

callback(optional)

Optional callback function

requestTransfer

planetNineGateway.requestTransfer(opts, callback)

Initiates a Nineum transfer between users. Once the transfer has been initiated the source user must authorize the transfer

Note: Returns an Error: Authentication error if the user has not authorized the gateway.

Parameters

options

ongoingGateway() takes an options object with the following properties:

Property	Description	Type
sourceUser	User object retrieved from getUser() for the user from whom the Nineum will be transferred	Object
destinationUserId	User ID of the user who will receive the Nineum	Int
nineumUniqueIds	Array of Nineum unique IDs of the Nineum that will be transferred	Array<String>

callback(optional)

Optional callback function

Conclusion

Thank you for checking out the Planet Nine Gateway framework. Hopefully this README has been helpful. We look forward to seeing what you create!

Usage no npm install needed!

README

Planet Nine Gateway

Quick Reference

Setup

npm Package

Cryptography

Ongoing Gateways

Initializing an Ongoing Gateway

Authorizing an Ongoing Gateway

Getting users

Spending Power

Transferring Nineum

Nineum

Quick Reference Guide

ongoingGateway

Parameters

getUserIdByUsername

Parameters

askForOngoingGatewayUsage

Parameters

getUser

Parameters

usePowerAtOngoingGateway

Parameters

requestTransfer

Parameters

Conclusion