Class WritableName

WritableName is a Name that has a signing key associated with it such that new IPNS record Revisions can be created and signed for it.

New WritableNames can be generated using the create function.

To load a WritableName from a saved binary representation, see from.

Hierarchy (View Summary)

Name
- WritableName

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Methods

Constructors

constructor

new WritableName(privKey: PrivateKey): WritableName
Parameters
- privKey: PrivateKey
Returns WritableName
Overrides Name.constructor
- Defined in index.ts:100

Accessors

bytes

get bytes(): Uint8Array
A binary representation of the IPNS verification key.

Returns Uint8Array
Inherited from Name.bytes
- Defined in index.ts:76

key

get key(): PrivateKey
The private signing key, as a libp2p PrivateKey object.

To save a key for later loading with from, write the contents of key.bytes somewhere safe.

Returns PrivateKey
- Defined in index.ts:114

Methods

toString

toString(): string
Returns string
the string representation of the IPNS verification key (e.g. k51qzi5uqu5di9agapykyjh3tqrf7i14a7fjq46oo0f6dxiimj62knq13059lt)
Inherited from Name.toString
- Defined in index.ts:83