EIP-0012 - dApp-Wallet Web Bridge

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+# EIP-0012: dApp-Wallet Web Bridge
+
+* Authors: rooooooooob, Robert Kornacki
+* Created: 10-Aug-2020
+* License: CC0
+* Forking: not needed
+
+## Description
+
+This document describes a communication bridge between cryptocurrency wallets and Ergo dApps which interact via javascript code injected into a web context. The communication is one-way from the dApp to the wallet.
+
+## Motivation
+
+Distributed apps (dApps) often require access to a user's wallet in order to function, and this is typically from a web context. In other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, this is done via a library such as web3 that injects code into a web browser that the dApp can interact with to create transactions or obtain address data using a user's wallet. This should be done in a manner that maximizes privacy and an easy user experience.
+
+## API
+
+The proposed API is limited to just the minimum wallet <-> dApp communication needed rather than providing lots of utility functions (tx building, data conversions, etc) or node-access (for UTXO scanning). This is different compared to web3 as that functionality could be modular in a separate library and Ergo smart contracts don't need as much direct node access for basic dApp functionality compared to Ethereum.
+
+This API is accessibly from a javascript object `ergo` that is injected into the web context. This object contains just the `request_read_access()` method upon dApp start.
+
+### request_read_access() -> Promise\<bool>
+
+If the API was not already injected, requests access to the API, and if the user consents, injects the full API similar to EIP-1102 into the `ergo` object. Returns true if the API has been injected, or false if the user refused access.
+Does nothing and returns true if the API was already injected.
+
+The wallet can choose to maintain its own whitelist if desired but this is on the wallet side and not a part of this standard. It could possibly also expose a subset of its state as responses to the other calls but this is also out of scope. All following API methods are injected upon consent.
+
+### check_read_access() -> bool
+
+Returns true if the full API was injected and we have read access, and false otherwise. This is potentially useful to have a cleaner UX on the dApp side (e.g. display request read access button for optional functionality rather than always requesting it).
+
+### get_utxos(amount: Value = undefined, token_id: String = 'ERG', paginate: Paginate = 'undefined') -> [Box] | undefined | PaginateError
+
+Returns a list of all unspent boxes tracked by the wallet that it is capable of signing for.
+Takes an optional {amount} parameter, if not `undefined`, limits the returned UTXOs to {amount} of the token {token_id} to create it. if {amount} is not `undefined` and there is not sufficient balance of the specified token to reach {amount} then `undefined` is returned.
+If {paginate} is not `undefined` then results are returned in a paginated manner in chronological order of use on the blockchain. If {paginate} is out of range, `PaginateError` is returned.
+
+### get_balance(token_id: String = 'ERG') -> Value
+
+Returns available balance of {token_id} owned by the wallet. A useful and minimal convenience functionality, that while could be served by iterating the return of `get_utxos` and summing, is useful enough and could be most likely quickly returned by wallets without needing to do this calculation.
+
+### get_used_addresses(paginate: Paginate = 'undefined') -> [Address]
+
+Returns all used (exist in confirmed transactions) addresses of the user's wallet.
+If {paginate} is not `undefined` then results are returned in a paginated manner in chronological order of use on the blockchain. If {paginate} is out of range, `PaginateError` is returned.
+
+### get_unused_addresses() -> [Address]
+
+Returns unused addresses available that have not been used yet. The wallet would need to pre-generate addresses here within its restrictions (e.g. discover gap on indices for HD wallets). These can be used for receive addresses.
+
+### sign_tx(tx: Tx) -> Promise\<SignedTx> | TxSignError
+
+A signed tx is returned if the wallet can provide proofs for all inputs (P2PK ones). If not it produces an error. This should also have some kind of user pop-up which if rejected would produce an error as well. This way signing/keys are kept entirely in the wallet.
+
+### sign_tx_input(tx: Tx, index: number) -> Promise\<SignedInput> | TxSignError
+
+Lower level tx signing functionality that signs a single input if the wallet is able to, and returns an error if not. This can be useful for constructing transactions consisting of inputs from multiple parties, and should be general enough for future transaction signing use-cases. Likewise with `sign_tx` this should ask for user consent and can be rejected producing an error.
+
+### sign_data(addr: Address, message: String) -> Promise\<String> | DataSignError
+
+Signs the generic data {data} encoded as a hex string using the private key associated with {addr} if possible. If the wallet does not own this address, an error is returned. This should ask for user consent and produce an error if rejected. The wallet should also implement a message signing protocol such as the proposed [EmIP-005](https://github.com/Emurgo/EmIPs/blob/5b00fce84f31eb763892186eb9c88739ec809333/specs/emip-005.md) in order to make this endpoint safer for use, and make it harder for the user to accidentally sign data such as transactions, blocks, etc. Returns the signed data as a hex-encoded string.
+
+TBD: Hash algorithm/format to use.
+
+### submit_tx(tx: SignedTx) -> TxId | TxSendError
+
+Uses the wallet to send the given tx and returns the TxId for the dApp to track when/if it is included as its own responsibility. This is technically not mandatory but any wallet that is using such a bridge should have this functionality. Wallets can additionally choose to rate-limit this call, and can return an error if they did not or could not send the transaction.
+
+### add_external_box(box_id: BoxId)
+
+Informs the wallet of a box it should track, specifically for P2S/P2SH boxes that the wallet might not be aware of. The wallet does not need to follow this suggestion and can handle how it does this on its own.
+
+## Data Formats
+
+Most of these types are meant to be the same as the JSON types in the Ergo full node, which matches up as of now with the `sigma-rust` representations.
+
+### Address
+
+String as the standard base58 encoding of an address.
+
+### Box
+
+Same as `sigma-rust`:
+```
+{
+ boxId: BoxId,
+ value: Value,
+ ergoTree: ErgoTree,
+ assets: [TokenAmount],
+ additionalRegisters: { String => Constant },
+ creationHeight: int,
+ transactionId: TxId,
+ index: int,
+}
+```
+Additional registers have string ids "R4", "R5" to "R9".
+
+### BoxCandidate
+
+Same as `Box` without `transactionId` and `index` as those will be computed when the tx is completed.
+
+### BoxId
+
+Hex string of the box id.
+
+### Constant
+
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep - Hex-encoded bytes for `SigmaSerialize` of a constant.
+
+### ContextExtension
+
+Uses the full node JSON rep (id to hex-encoded binary buffer)
+```
+{
+ values: { String => String }
+}
+```
+or the empty `{}` object for P2PK inputs.
+
+### ErgoTree
+
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep - Hex string representing serialized bytes of the tree using `SigmaSerialize`
+
+### Input
+
+Read-only input (e.g. oracle usage or one yet to be signed) that is not spendable. Uses `sigma-rust` JSON rep:
+```
+{
+ boxId: BoxId,
+}
+```
+This is `DataInput` in `sigma-rust` and was renamed since it's used for both data inputs and for unsigned inputs.
+For an `Input` in `sigma-rust`, see `SignedInput` here.
+
+### SignedInput
+
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep:
+```
+{
+ boxId: BoxId,
+ spendingProof: ProverResult,
+}
+```
+This is `Input` in `sigma-rust`.
+
+## Paginate
+
+```
+{
+ page: int,
+ limit: int,
+}
+```
+Used to specify optional pagination for some API calls. Limits results to {limit} each page, and uses a 0-indexing {page} to refer to which of those pages of {limit} items each.
+
+## PaginateError
+
+```
+{
+ maxSize: int,
+}
+```
+{maxSize} is the maximum size for pagination and if we try to request pages outside of this boundary this error is thrown.
+
+### ProverResult
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep - proof is a byte array serialized using `SigmaSerialize` in hex format:
+```
+{
+ proofBytes: String,
+ extension: ContextExtension,
+}
+```
+
+### SignedTx
+
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep for a transaction:
+
+```
+{
+ id: TxId,
+ inputs: [SignedInput],
+ dataInputs: [Input],
+ outputs: [Box],
+ size: int,
+}
+```
+with the difference with `Tx` is that the inputs are signed (`Input` instead of `DataInput`)
+
+
+### TokenAmount
+
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep:
+```
+{
+ tokenId: TokenId,
+ amount: Value,
+}
+```
+
+### TokenId
+
+Uses `sigma-rust` rep - Hex string of the id.
+
+### Tx
+
+An unsigned transaction. Uses a modified version of the transaction representation in `sigma-rust`.
+```
+{
+ id: TxId,
+ inputs: [Input],
+ dataInputs: [Input],
+ outputCandidates: [BoxCandidate],
+}
+```
+This differs from `Tx` in that that `inputs` would be `[Input]`, however we haven't signed this tx yet and also the outputs are merely candidates.
+
+### TxId
+
+Same as `sigma-rust` - string hex encoding
+
+### TxSendError
+
+```
+TxSendErrorCode {
+ Refused: 1,
+ Failure: 2,
+}
+TxSendError {
+ code: TxSendErrorCode,
+ info: String
+}
+```
+
+* Refused - Wallet refuses to send the tx (could be rate limiting)
+* Failure - Wallet could not send the tx
+
+### TxSignError
+
+```
+TxSignErrorCode {
+ ProofGeneration: 1,
+ UserDeclined: 2,
+}
+TxSignError {
+ code: TxSignErrorCode,
+ info: String
+}
+```
+
+* ProofGeneration - User has accepted the transaction sign, but the wallet was unable to sign the transaction (e.g. not having some of the private keys)
+* UserDeclined - User declined to sign the transaction
+
+
+### DataSignError
+
+```
+DataSignErrorCode {
+ ProofGeneration: 1,
+ AddressNotPK: 2,
+ UserDeclined: 3,
+ InvalidFormat: 4,
+}
+DataSignError {
+ code: DataSignErrorCode,
+ info: String
+}
+```
+
+* ProofGeneration - Wallet could not sign the data (e.g. does not have the secret key associated with the address)
+* AddressNotPK - Address was not a P2PK address and thus had no SK associated with it.
+* UserDeclined - User declined to sign the data
+* InvalidFormat - If a wallet enforces data format requirements, this error signifies that the data did not conform to valid formats.
+
+### Value
+
+BigNum-like object. Represents a value which may or may not be ERG. Value is in the smallest possible unit (e.g. nanoErg for ERG). It can be either a `number` or a `string` using standard unsigned integer text representation.