Identity SDK

Tanker Identity generation in JavaScript for the Tanker SDK.

Installation

The preferred way of using the component is via NPM:

npm install --save @tanker/identity

API

createIdentity(appId, appSecret, userId);

Create a new Tanker identity. This identity is secret and must only be given to a user who has been authenticated by your application. This identity is used by the Tanker client SDK to open a Tanker session.

appId The app ID. You can access it from the Tanker dashboard.

appSecret The app secret key. A secret that you have saved right after the creation of your App.

userId The ID of a user in your application.

createProvisionalIdentity(appId, 'email', email);

Create a Tanker provisional identity. It allows you to share a resource with a user who does not have an account in your application yet.

appId The app ID. You can access it from the Tanker dashboard.

email The email of the potential recipient of the resource.

getPublicIdentity(tankerIdentity);

Return the public identity from an identity. This public identity can be used by the Tanker client SDK to share encrypted resource.

tankerIdentity A Tanker identity.

Usage

The server-side code below demonstrates a typical flow to safely deliver identities to your users:

import { createIdentity } from '@tanker/identity';

// Store these configurations in a safe place
const appId = '<app-id>';
const appSecret = '<app-secret>';

// Example server-side function in which you would implement checkAuth(),
// retrieveUserIdentity() and storeUserIdentity() to use your own authentication
// and data storage mechanisms:
async function getUserIdentity(userId) {
  const isAuthenticated = checkAuth(userId);

  // Always ensure user is authenticated before returning a user identity
  if (!isAuthenticated) {
    throw new Error('unauthorized');
  }

  // Retrieve a previously stored user identity for this user
  let identity = retrieveUserIdentity(userId);

  // If not found, create a new user identity
  if (!identity) {
    identity = await createIdentity(appId, appSecret, userId);

    // Store the newly generated user identity
    storeUserIdentity(userId, identity);
  }

  // From now, the same user identity will always be returned to a given user
  return identity;
}

Read more about user identity in the Tanker guide.