ARC 53 Watcher

Blockchain watcher for arc53 metadata written in go

Prerequisites

You'll need go 1.22.1 installed on your local machine. See https://go.dev/ for installation instructions or use Homebrew on MacOS.

• spin up a mysql database
• set an environment variable for the watcher called DB_AUTH with your database connection credentials base64 encoded For Linux & MacOS this typically looks like

 DB_AUTH=`echo -n <database connection string> | base64` && export DB_AUTH

Note

if you're unfamiliar, a connection string typically includes your database username, password, host, port & database ( if necessary ).

ie <username>:<password>@tcp(<host>:<port>)/

• set an environment variable for ENV if you want to use mainnet

 export ENV=production

• create databases arc53 & arc53_test and dump the db.sql file into them

mysql -u username -p arc53 < ./db.sql && mysql -u username -p arc53_test < ./db.sql

Running the server

Run the watcher to sync provider apps, track the chain & update / add new community pages automatically using the go run command:

go run ./main/.

Note

the initial catchup for syncing all provider apps may take some time

Adding new providers

A provider type in the context of ARC 53 is a type of contract that is capable of doing verifications against multiple addresses & a way to store & retreive the IPFS Content ID which is the location of the JSON metadata contents.

ProviderTypes must implement the following interface:

type ProviderType interface {
	Type() string
	Init(string, *sqlx.DB, *algod.Client) error
	CatchUp(*sqlx.DB, *algod.Client, uint64, *indexer.Client) error
	ProcessBlock(stxn types.SignedTxnInBlock, round uint64) error
	Process(uint64) error
	IsProviderApp(uint64) bool
}

Type() string is a namespace label for the provider Type. A provider type is a set of provider contracts that are capable of adhering to the specification where a single provider type interface implementation tracks, saves & updates the details. This allows us to group them by the implementation details inherit in supporting the blockwatcher service for a set of contracts.

Init(string, *sqlx.DB, *algod.Client) error is a setup function that implementers can use to instantiate dependencies and ensure the provider type is ready to go.

CatchUp(*sqlx.DB, *algod.Client, uint64, *indexer.Client) error is the function that gets ran to do the initial database propegation for the provider type contracts that existed before the server was ran or were created since the last time it was ran.

ProcessBlock(stxn types.SignedTxnInBlock, round uint64) error gets ran as the blockwatcher checks for new blocks, in this function provider types must check for new provider apps of their given type & save them, as well as check for updates to existing provider contracts.

Process(uint64) error is for one off app updates & allow us to process / update ARC53 data through mechanisms like direct rest api calls

IsProviderApp(uint64) bool discerns whether a provided app ID is of a given type