sentinel-js-sdk

The Sentinel JS SDK relays on CosmJS and it was developed following the official tutorial, it take also inspiration from other open source Cosmos SDK.

The SDK exstends the followings:

• @cosmjs/stargate/StargateClient as SentinelClient
• @cosmjs/stargate/SigningStargateClient SigningSentinelClient
• @cosmjs/stargate/QueryClient as client.sentinelQuery

Full documentation: https://sentinel-official.github.io/sentinel-js-sdk/

clients

import { SentinelClient } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";

const rpc = "https://rpc.sentinel.co:443"
const client = await SentinelClient.connect(rpc)
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If you need to sign and broadcast a tx you need to instantiate a SigningClient.

import { SigningSentinelClient } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
import { DirectSecp256k1HdWallet } from "@cosmjs/proto-signing"
import { GasPrice } from "@cosmjs/stargate"

const wallet = await DirectSecp256k1HdWallet.fromMnemonic(mnemonic, { prefix: "sent" });
const [account] = await wallet.getAccounts();

const rpc = "https://rpc.sentinel.co:443"

// With a default GasPrice:
const customDenom = "udvpn"
const gasPrice = GasPrice.fromString(`0.2${customDenom}`);
const client = await SigningSentinelClient.connectWithSigner(rpc, wallet, {
    gasPrice: gasPrice
})

// Without a default GasPrice:
const client = await SigningSentinelClient.connectWithSigner(rpc, wallet)
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You can also set other default parameters: https://cosmos.github.io/cosmjs/latest/stargate/interfaces/SigningStargateClientOptions.html.

In order to subscribe to chain events you need a websocket client

import { SentinelWsClient } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
const client = new SentinelWsClient("wss://rpc.sentinel.quokkastake.io");
const stream = client.subscribe("tm.event='NewBlock'")
stream.addListener({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(err),
    complete: () => console.log('completed'),
});
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query

import { Status, PageRequest } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
const nodes = await client.sentinelQuery?.node.nodes(
    Status.STATUS_ACTIVE,
    PageRequest.fromPartial({
        limit: 5,
        countTotal: true
    })
)
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For pagination please follow:

• https://docs.cosmos.network/v0.45/core/proto-docs.html#cosmos-base-query-v1beta1-pagination-proto
• https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/blob/main/types/query/pagination.pb.go#L32-L53
• https://github.com/confio/cosmjs-types/blob/main/src/cosmos/base/query/v1beta1/pagination.ts

transaction

After you have initialize a SigningClient you can prepare and broadcast a tx in multiple ways.

1. Create a MsgEcodeObject and call signAndBroadcast from your client.

import { TxNodeSubscribe, nodeSubscribe } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
import Long from "long";

const args: TxNodeSubscribe = {
    from: account.address,
    nodeAddress: sentnode,
    gigabytes: Long.fromNumber(gygabyte, true),
    denom: "udvpn"
}
const msg = nodeSubscribe(args)
const tx = client.signAndBroadcast(account.address, [msg], "auto", "memo")
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2. Call directly nodeSubscribe from your client or from submodule (this will automatically signAndBroadcast the tx)

import { TxNodeSubscribe } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
import Long from "long";

const args: TxNodeSubscribe = {
    from: account.address,
    nodeAddress: sentnode,
    gigabytes: Long.fromNumber(gygabyte, true),
    denom: "udvpn",
    fee: "auto",
    memo: "hello from js-sdk"
}
// call directly
const tx1 = client.nodeSubscribe(args)
// use submodule
const tx2 = client.node.subscribe(args)
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It is up to you if you want to await the tx or use a callback

const tx1 = await client.nodeSubscribe(args)
client.nodeSubscribe(args).then(tx => { do stuff... })
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events parsing

client.signAndBroadcast or implicit call trought, for example, client.nodeSubscribe or client.node.subscribe return a DeliverTxResponse. You can search for a determinate event using the method searchEvent. For example if you are looking for sentinel.node.v2.EventCreateSubscription, you can do the following:

import { searchEvent } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
const eventCreateSubscription = searchEvent(sentinel.node.v2.EventCreateSubscription, tx.events);
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or better

import { searchEvent } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
import { NodeEventCreateSubscription } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
const eventCreateSubscription = searchEvent(NodeEventCreateSubscription.type, tx.events);
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The single event can also be parsed via the appropriate interface, following the example:

import { searchEvent } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";
import { NodeEventCreateSubscription, isNodeEventCreateSubscription } from "@sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk";

const eventCreateSubscription = searchEvent(NodeEventCreateSubscription.type, tx.events);
if(eventCreateSubscription && isNodeEventCreateSubscription(eventCreateSubscription)) {
    const eventParsed = NodeEventCreateSubscription.parse(eventCreateSubscription)
    console.log(`Your subscription id is: ${eventParsed.value.id}`)
} else console.log("eventCreateSubscription, not found")
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protobuf

All the .proto files are compiled using protoc and ts-proto as plugin. The compiled .ts proto files are under src/protobuf. If you want to compile again you can use scripts/generate-proto.sh. The script requires git and protoc, it will automatically download all the .proto definitions from sentinel-hub and relative third parties.

examples

The official cosmjs examples can be used as well. Just remember to replace StargateClient with SentinelClient and SigningStargateClient with SigningSentinelClient.

The repository provide currently a nodejs script example and a keplr one (based on: https://tutorials.cosmos.network/tutorials/7-cosmjs/4-with-keplr.html).

If you want to use a local version of sdk (for testing purpose) you have to compile the src folder into dist and then link the package with npm.

npm run build
npm link
cd examples/<choose-an-example>
npm link @sentinel-official/sentinel-js-sdk
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run keplr example

cd examples/keplr
npm i
npm run dev
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Navigate to: http://127.0.0.1:3000/.

run nodejs example

cd examples/node
npm i
ts-node main.ts
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