agent_dart

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An agent library built for Internet Computer, a plugin package for dart and flutter apps. Developers can build ones to interact with Dfinity's blockchain directly.

Community: https://discord.gg/aNzRuePmUY

📃 Table of content

  1. Table of content
  2. Prerequisites
  3. Quick start
  4. Motivation
  5. Milestones
  6. Documentation
  7. Contributing
  8. Reference and related projects
  9. FAQ

🚦 Prerequisites

  • Flutter version in the agent_dart/pubspec.yaml
  • CMake v3.2.0 or later
  • Xcode (10.12) or later (Running on macOS or iOS)
  • Android NDK version 21.4.7075529 (Running on Android)
  • Rust version 1.51
  • Node.js v15.0 or later, TBD

⚡️ Quick start

  1. git clone

  2. install Prerequisites, make sure you run

    flutter doctor -v

    Without errors

  3. To run example, follow instructions under example folder

  4. To run tests:

    flutter test

🧘‍♂️ Motivation

The Internet Computer is powered by blockchain and its major impact is to bring WebApp to be truly decentralized. However, we are in the mobile internet era, even we can use Safari or Chrome on our cell phones. But most average people, not crypto enthusiasts, are likely to use native mobile apps, major users are there.

It's important to attract these people to use Dapps of Internet Computer, by providing stable, fast, and fully integrated to Dfinity's blockchain. We likely to provide further solution to balancing the "Decentralization" and "Efficiency". But first things first, we have to make mobile native apps work.

agent-rs and agent-js are the actual lower level client-SDKs, just like ether.js or web3.js of Ethereum's ecosystem. This library is aiming to port and replicate features from them. And this library is mainly for mobile apps to connect canisters, not deploying contracts (you can do that if you want, but use dart directly).

We have tried our best to migrate most interface styles just like Javascript version, but there are limitations and differences between different programming languages, we will document them as much as possible.

🏆 Milestones

Milestone 1: Core features/libraries migrating.

  • agent, core library, with crypto and encoding/decoding methods , http call/query encapsulated, for interacting with canister.
  • auth_client, a popup window for flutter, used for getting authentication from Identity provider(eg, Internet Identity).
  • authentication, a library supports auth_client
  • candid, candid library, used for encoding/decoding candid data types, and used them in dart-lang.
  • principal, principal library, used for generate principal for many usage cases.
  • protobuf, protobuf library, used for interacting with rosetta-node in submit/query transaction
  • utils, common utils, including useful helpers like extension methods in dart.
  • wallet, wallet library, signer, rosetta, key-smith all-in-one library.

Milestone 2: Enhanced built tool and more example apps

Milestone 3: Documentation and community driven development

📘 Documentation

Reference on pub.dev

Plan for docs site

A stand-alone docs site with guides for Dfinity Dapps made in Flutter/Dart

👨‍💻 Contributing

By contributing to agent_dart, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its MIT License.

  1. Fork this library and add your own branch. like this:

    {github_id}/{feat|fix|test|dep}-{detail}

  2. Install Prerequisites

  3. Build rust dependencies for all supported platform (macOS, iOS, Android, windows, linux)

    $ sh ./scripts/clean && ./scripts/init.sh && ./scripts/build.sh

  4. Start example

    Read instruction first, then run

    $ cd example
$ flutter run

  5. Test (Unit Test and Integration Test)

    $ flutter test

  6. Commit and make a pull request, process is TBD for now. We will use CI to automate

🔗 Reference and related projects

⚠️ FAQ

Build rust libraries for iOS/MacOS

  • All rust method have to be written inside SwiftAgentDartPlugin.swift, to avoid tree shaking of latest release build by XCode.

  • The agent_dart_podspec should change accordingly when this repo goes 1.0.0

  • On M1 chipset of MacOS, please install rosetta 2

    $ sudo softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

Network problem in iOS and MacOS

  • If you run example or build a flutter app, you may come up with this:
[macOS] SocketException: Connection failed (OS Error: Operation not permitted, errno = 1)
  • Go to macos/Runner/ of macOS and ios/Runner
  • Edit DebugProfile.entitlements and ReleaseProfile.entitlements, Add following:
<key>com.apple.security.network.client</key>
<true/>

Libraries

agent/actor
agent/agent
agent/agent/api
agent/agent/factory
agent/agent/http/fetch
agent/agent/http/index
agent/agent/http/transform
agent/agent/http/types
agent/agent/index
agent/agent/proxy
agent/auth
agent/canisters/asset
agent/canisters/asset_idl
agent/canisters/canisters
agent/canisters/management
agent/canisters/management_idl
agent/cbor
agent/certificate
agent/crypto/crypto
agent/crypto/keystore/api
agent/crypto/keystore/key_store
agent/crypto/random
agent/errors
agent/polling/index
agent/polling/strategy
agent/request_id
agent/types
agent/utils/buffer_pipe
agent/utils/hash
agent/utils/leb128
agent/utils/utils
agent_dart
agent_dart_web
archiver/archiver
archiver/decoder
archiver/encoder
archiver/signing_block
auth_client/auth_client
authentication/authentication
bls/bls.base
bls/bls.ffi
bls/bls.stub
bls/bls.web
bls/ffi/ffi
bls/ffi/ffi_base
bls/ffi/ffi_helper
bls/wasm_interop
Dart wrapper for WebAssembly JavaScript API
candid/idl
candid/index
identity/delegation
identity/der
identity/ed25519
identity/identity
identity/secp256k1
principal/principal
principal/utils/base32
principal/utils/get_crc
principal/utils/sha224
principal/utils/sha256
principal/utils/utils
protobuf/ic_base_types/pb/v1/types.pb
protobuf/ic_base_types/pb/v1/types.pbenum
protobuf/ic_base_types/pb/v1/types.pbjson
protobuf/ic_base_types/pb/v1/types.pbserver
protobuf/ic_ledger/pb/v1/types.pb
protobuf/ic_ledger/pb/v1/types.pbenum
protobuf/ic_ledger/pb/v1/types.pbjson
protobuf/ic_ledger/pb/v1/types.pbserver
utils/array
utils/base64
utils/bech32
utils/bn
utils/extension
utils/hex
utils/is
utils/map
utils/number
utils/string
utils/u8a
wallet/hashing
wallet/keysmith
wallet/ledger
wallet/pem
wallet/rosetta
wallet/signer
wallet/types
wallet/wallet